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• The Sky My Kingdom - Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot

  
  Hanna Reitsch

  Casemate Books

  2011

  English

  

  272 pg.

  978-1-932033-97-7

  It was the memorable book ‘They went into the air as angels with homesickness – nostalgia.’ From Jan Jacobs Mulder in which I read for the first time about Hanna Reitsch (see my previous book discussions). Next in another book and thus I had to know more about this woman. Who was Hanna? Hanna was […]

• Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander

  
  Rudi Dekkers

  2008

  English

  

  272 pg.

  0982668732

  I was walking into a bookstore (enslaved as I am) looking one or more interesting books. I bought two! In this book review I will discuss one of them, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ by Rudi Dekkers. This book was published in Dutch in 2008. In the English language, he published in 2011 the book ‘Guilty by […]

• Flyers are liars / Vliegers zijn liegers

  
  Jan Breman

  Reed Business

  2008

  English, Dutch

  

  117 pg.

  10 9068825240

  From the warplanes of the Somme in France in WW1, we this time go to a volume with 9 stories which occured a bit later in the last century. The book is written by Jan Breman who has flown his whole life. He did it in many planes, and with this book he wants us […]

• Battleground Europe Airfields & Airmen Somme

  
  Mike O’Connor

  Pen & Sword Books Ltd

  2001

  English

  

  160 pg.

  0 85052 864

  After reading some books related to the Falklands War about missions of the Vulcan and Harrier, I ended up via a number of books on war at Verdun and the Somme in the first world war, with this book about old aircraft flying at the Somme. Very old aircraft are not my favourite, but I […]