Book Reviews

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  • Dowding's Eagles

    Dowding's Eagles
    Norman Franks
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    272 pg.
    9781473844209
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Amongst the twenty-five BoB veterans you will find, next to representatives of the whole Commonwealth, also a Polish, a Czech and a Belgian man, but no Dutch man. These I have also not been able to find on the BoB memorial plate in St. Pauls Cathedral, during a recent visit. I must admit that due […]

  • Blue Diamonds

    Blue Diamonds
    Michael Napier
    Pen and Sword Bookds
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    320 pg.
    9781473823273
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The author has conscientious collected in this book all weapon facts from the 14th squadron of the RAF in the 1945-2015 period. Who else can do this better than Michael Napier, who himself has served a long time at this squadron and has written a beautiful book about that time (Tornado above Tigris). This book […]

  • The Pilot, Fighter Planes and Paris

    The Pilot, Fighter Planes and Paris
    Ed Cobleigh
    Check Six Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    214 pg.
    ISBN-10: 0692392068 ISBN-13: 978-0692392065
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Three storylines converge in this book: flying fighter planes, interesting women and Paris. The Pilot travels, nameless, through time as a fighter pilot from the Sopwith Camel up to the Starfighter F 104, which brings him wide and far over the globe. He experiences in each of these periods, which embrace more than one human […]

  • SUKHOI Su-15- The Boeing Killer

    SUKHOI Su-15- The Boeing Killer
    Yefim Gordon
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978 1473823907
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This is one of the many photo books published by Pen & Sword Books in A4 size with 96 pages filled with an overview of the history of this Russian warplane with more then 170  black and white and colour photos of the Su-15. The authors describe within the smallest details the development and the operational live […]

  • Fighters over the Falklands: Defending the Islanders' way of life

    Fighters over the Falklands: Defending the Islanders' way of life
    David Gledhill
    Fonthill Media
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    207 pg.
    ISBN-10: 1781552223 ISBN-13: 978-1781552223
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    After reading ‘The Phantom in Focus’ I obviously was curious about the above stated book of this author. Curious especially about how this book from 2013 would hold itself with respect to the more known, somewhat older good Falkland books ‘Vulcan 607’ and ‘Harrier over the Falklands’. Well now, this book of David Gledhill accomplishes […]

  • Secret Wings

    Secret Wings
    lance Cole
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    216 pg.
    978 1 47382 344 0
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The title of this book was so inviting that I happily welcomed it for a book review. The reading of it turned out to be an almost impossible task for me. Every page contains an avalanche of facts and references; soon I got stuck. No way to get through! After having taken a bit of […]

  • The Phantom in focus- A navigator's eye on the Britain's cold war warrior

    The Phantom in focus- A navigator's eye on the Britain's cold war warrior
    Dave Gledhill
    Fonthill
    2012
    English
    X X X X X X
    285 pg.
    ISBN10 1781554218, ISBN13 9781781554210
    Review written by: René Verjans

    This book is really like bringing the birds to the cat! About 30 years ago, in my spotting days, you could regularly find me at RAF Wildenrath, positioned in West Germany, westerly of the Ruhr area. The Lightning’s were phased out and the 19th and the 92nd squadron flew with… Phantoms! For those I developed […]

  • Classic light aircraft

    Classic light aircraft
    Ron Smith
    Shiffer Publishing ltd
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    415 pg.
    978-0-7643-4896-9
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    You must really love small aircraft an awful lot to be able to produce a book like this! More than 800 aircraft are listed in this bible of more than 400 pages thick! It is something like a Janes Defense…but then different. Not all ‘light aircraft’ are enlisted in this book, else it would be twice […]

  • Eagle in the Sky

    Eagle in the Sky
    Ran Ronen (Pekker)
    Contento De Semrik (www.Semrik.com)
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    406 pg.
    978-965-550-148-3
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Ran Ronen (1936)  started his career in the IAF (Israeli Air Force) in the beginning of 1954. After his basic training on the Stearman and the Harvard he started his operational training on the Spitfire, which formed the backbone of the IAF together with the Mustang fighter. After that period he followed a conversion training […]

  • Airmen behind the medals- third volume

    Airmen behind the medals- third volume
    Graham Pichfork
    Pen and sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    233 pg.
    9781473828155

    Fine concept is there behind this book that already is the third version in a series of Graham Pitchfork. The book describes 21 stories of brave people that flew and didn’t flew in the Second World War in all kinds of missions. The medals that have been earned are shown and of course the stories […]