Reviews in Dutch
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Luchtmeisjes
2012Dutch295 pg.978 90 388 9434 8Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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100 jaar vliegen voorbij
Kosmos Uitgevers2008Dutch430 pg.Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Piloot van goed en kwaad
Bezige Bij2012Dutch207 pg.978 90 234 7442 5Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Nog een verhaaltje dan...
2012Dutch221 pg.978-94-90008-10-9Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Last of the few
2010English274 pg.9780753522271You couldn’t get closer to the Battle of Britain than this book. Max Arthur has split the air war into 6 episodes from ‘Learning to fly’ to ‘First combat’ and ‘The battle for France’ right through to the different phases of the ‘Battle of Britain’ which was largely fought over the Channel and the U.K. […]
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Alive
1974Dutch, Spanish334 pg.90 290 2673 1Many people might still recall the events of 13 October 1972, when a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan air force crashed in the Andes with 45 people on board. The plane was carrying the members of a Uruguayan amateur rugby team along with some of their family members and friends, and it was bound for […]
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History in the Arab skies
2011English232 pg.978-9963-610-73-0Imagine you can teleport yourself back to the year 1922 and then imagine that you are flying over 500 miles of unending sand from Cairo to Baghdad without any landmarks to help you. Oh, yes, there are no radio beacons and you don’t have any GPS, ATC, etc. How do you do that? Simple! You […]
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Chickenhawk
Penguin Books1984English399 pg.0-552-12419-2We are transported back in time to the mid-sixties. For a twenty-year period between 1955 and 1975 war raged in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The plot revolves around the fact that a number of countries, including the US, considered that the communists were becoming far too powerful in the region and that something had to […]
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Aerospace design
2003English, Dutch191 pg.1858942071These days I am increasingly wondering whether I, as a reviewer of books, am critical enough. Could there possibly be a downside to holding a PPL License which might be causing me to devour only good books instead of reading mediocre to bad books and drilling them into the ground with a flourish? Is it […]
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6th june 1944 Overlord
Orep2010English, French, Dutch82 pg.978-2-8151-0041-0There is a magnificent Hawker Typhoon on the cover of this particular comic strip, and that’s why I bought it. The book is an instructive one due to its many beautiful drawings coupled with the stories in the speech balloons. Operation Overlord is the complex campaign that heralded the liberation of Europe and eventually led […]