Books A-Z

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  • Turn and Burn: A Fighter Pilot's Memories and Confessions

    Turn and Burn: A Fighter Pilot's Memories and Confessions
    Darell J. Ahrens
    Wise Media Group
    2020
    English
    X X X X X
    252 pg.
    ISBN-10 : 1629671886 ISBN-13 : 978-1629671888
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Review 276 Turn and Burn: A Fighter Pilot’s Memories and Confessions- Darell J. Ahrens The Life of a fighter pilot This book ‘Turn and burn’ is written by a fighter pilot who fought in the Vietnam war and flew a big variety of jets. Many fighter pilot’s wrote their biography and in general it is […]

  • Topgun days

    Topgun days
    Dave 'Bio' Baranek
    Skyhorse Publishing
    2010
    English
    X X X X X
    978-1-61608-005-1

    Topgun! Everyone knows Topgun as the movie Topgun from 1986 with Tom Cruise and his lovely lady. And most of the time that’s it! Topgun is the flashy name for the American Navy Fighter Weapons School, which was founded as navy pilots performed relatively poor in the Vietnam War in comparison to other wars. Nowadays, […]

  • Tomcat Rio A Topgun Instructor on the F-14 Tomcat and the Heroic Naval Aviators That Fly It

    Tomcat Rio A Topgun Instructor on the F-14 Tomcat and the Heroic Naval Aviators That Fly It
    Dave Baranek
    Skyhorse Publishing
    2020
    English
    X X X X X X
    224 pg.
    EAN 9781510748224
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Review Tomcat Rio A- Topgun Instructor on the F-14 Tomcat and the Heroic Naval Aviators That Fly It- Dave Baranek Up with the best of the best I already had read a book of Dave ‘Bio’ Baranek (further referred to as ‘Bio’) and also this book ‘Tomcat Rio’ is a real great one! A book […]

  • 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 […]

  • Luftwaffe Fighter Force- The View from the Cockpit

    Luftwaffe Fighter Force- The View from the Cockpit
    David C. Isby
    Frontline Books
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    224 pg.
    9781848329850
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The title of this book was so inviting that I eagerly accepted it for a book review. Even more because the picture of Adolf Galland and other German ‘Aces’ decorate the cover. What really fills this book, instead of the expected ‘cockpit stories’, are the interrogation reports which started directly after the 8th of May […]

  • Nicaragua, 1961–1990 Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship

    Nicaragua, 1961–1990 Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship
    David Francois
    Helion & Company Ltd.
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    72 pg.
    978-1-911628-21-7
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Nicaragua, 1961–1990 Volume 1: The Downfall of the Somosa Dictatorship David Francois is a Frenchman in ‘militant communism’. Considering France its experience therewith in Vietnam as background, makes his curiosity for the battle in Nicaragua of the ‘red’ Sandinists against a by the Occident helped dictator, understandable. My interest arouse during a visit to this […]

  • 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 […]

  • Defector (Phantom Air Combat Book 1)

    Defector (Phantom Air Combat Book 1)
    David Gledhill
    DeeGee Media
    213
    English
    X X X X X
    345 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The story in this book is happening during the Cold War in the eighties when low flying Phantoms of the RAF were cruising the West German airspace. It is an aviation thriller in which a Phantom crew and a defected Sovjet test pilot fill up the leading role. Most aviation books I read are nonfiction […]

  • Tornado F3 in Focus: A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor

    Tornado F3 in Focus: A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor
    David Gledhill
    Fonthill Media
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    288 pg.
    ISBN-10: 1781553076 ISBN-13: 978-1781553077
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The author David Gledhill has already written a number of aircraft books amongst them “The Phantom in Focus” that recently was reviewed by my colleague René Verjans. This book describes the operational career of David Gledhill in the RAF as a navigator( wso) on the Tornado F-3. The Tornado was contentious and in the beginning […]

  • Phantom in the Cold War-RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992

    Phantom in the Cold War-RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992
    David Gledhill
    Pen & Sword Books
    2017
    English
    X X X X X X
    271 pg.
    9781526704085
    Review written by: René Verjans

    Somewhere around my 14th birthday my dad told me that, approximately 40kms from our home in The Netherlands, there was a British Military airport on German soil, near the border; RAF Wildenrath. He better had not told me so! In about 3 years I have visited probably 40 times and that is where my love […]