Reviews in English

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  • Recollections of the Great War In The Air

    Recollections of the Great War In The Air
    James McConnel
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    9781781592441
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    A hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War the market is being flooded with re-editions of books. Books appear and reappear, based on old letters and diaries, on par with newspaper articles and several broadcastings on the same subject. Comparing ‘One bridge to far’ to what happened back then is beyond imagination. If […]

  • Naval Aviation in the Second World War

    Naval Aviation in the Second World War
    Philip Kaplan
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    144 pg.

    After reading the first two chapters of Philip Kaplan’s book about Pearl Harbour and the development of the early aircraft carriers he is the one to blame for my continuous hunt of YouTube clips about the ‘War in the Pacific’. I watched 15 clips of 45 minutes in line and was totally addicted. Notwithstanding the […]

  • Ace of the Black Cross - The Memoirs of Ernst Udet

    Ace of the Black Cross - The Memoirs of Ernst Udet
    Ernst Udet
    2013
    English, German
    X X X X X
    202 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book is about Ernst Udet, a German ace from the Great War. It is the English transcription of the original “Mein Fliegerleben”. Ernst Udet, a top-ace from the German Luftwaffe was born in 1896. Between 1914-1918 he was accounted for 62 victories in air battles while only 19 years old in 1915. That same […]

  • Happy End

    Happy End
    Dietmar Eckell
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.

    This book had a most special cause! The writer of the book crashed a couple of years ago with a para motor (a parachute in combination with a hair-dryer) somewhere in the Mojave dessert. He had to save himself and in the end it led to an involuntarily hospital visit. He searched the internet on […]

  • The Dam buster Raid

    The Dam buster Raid
    Alan W. Cooper
    Pen & Sword Books Ltd
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    216 pg.
    978-1-78159-474-2
    Review written by: Nico Mulder

    70 years after the event, the attack on the dams in the Ruhr area still speaks till the imagination. In 216 pages the writer tells how the new formed 617-squadron under the command of Guy Gibson is trained to try to bring the war to an end, with a specific for this purpose developed ‘bounce’-bomb. […]

  • Blackbirds

    Blackbirds
    Garry Ryan
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    225 pg.
    Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Blackbirds is the first in Canadian author Garry Ryan’s series of novels about 18-year-old Sharon Lacey, who goes to England in May 1940 in search of her estranged father. Lacey, who had been taught to fly in the wide open skies of the Alberta prairies, is quickly recruited into the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) to […]

  • The Ice Pilots

    The Ice Pilots
    Michael Vlessides
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    271 pg.
    Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Since the television series Ice Pilots, NWT debuted in 2008, thousands of devoted fans have tuned in weekly to watch the Buffalo Airways team keep vintage aircraft like Douglas DC-3 Dakotas, DC-4s, and Curtiss C-46 Commandos flying in Canada’s North. Viewers are equally riveted by the show’s “characters”: the McBryan family, headed by no-nonsense “Buffalo” […]

  • Surviving trainer & transport aircraft of the world

    Surviving trainer & transport aircraft of the world
    Don Berliner
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    185 pg.

    This book is the third lovely book of a series of three books that in total describe more than 300 airplane types that have survived the Second World War Funny is that on the book cover it says that this book describes the ‘less-glamorous’ airplanes. I do not agree with that! What for instance to […]

  • Luck of a Lancaster

    Luck of a Lancaster
    Gordon Thorburn
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    200 pg.

    Where to start with a review about this book? No idea actually, but I will just begin at the bar, were Sticky Lewis-Sgt William Charles Lewis was found a lot in ’43 to – as I assume – cope with everything the experiences as flight engineer on the Lancaster’s he flew. At that bar it […]

  • For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services

    For the love of Flying: the story of Laurentian Air Services
    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
    2009
    English
    X X X X X
    224 pg.

    How often does it occur that a historical researcher dives deep into the history of a beautiful nostalgic aviation company? Not so very often I believe, DHC-2 but this is in any way a  very successful attempt of the Canadian Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail. The combination of researcher, writer en specifically this aviation company (that unfortunately doesn’t […]