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• Naval Aviation in the Second World War

  
  Philip Kaplan

  Pen & Sword Books

  2013

  English

  

  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

  
  Ernst Udet

  2013

  English, German

  

  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

  
  Dietmar Eckell

  2013

  English

  

  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 horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  Dutch/English

  

  416 pg.
  Review written by: Max Heldring

  Buy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]

• The Dam buster Raid

  
  Alan W. Cooper

  Pen & Sword Books Ltd

  2013

  English

  

  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. […]

• All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors

  
  Aart van Wijk

  2012

  English

  

  384 pg.

  978-90-79058-02-0

  In my hunt for excellent books at the aviation firmament I ran into this book and this specimen really deserves a honourable mention. And to top it all, the book is even a Dutch product. Whilst about everyone in 2013 is minding the JSF and the F-16 and some persons perhaps still staying behind at […]

• Hete hangijzers - De aanschaf van Nederlandse gevechtsvliegtuigen

  
  Bert Kreemers

  2009

  Dutch

  

  350 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• Blackbirds

  
  Garry Ryan

  2012

  English

  

  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 […]

• Meer verhaaltjes? Heb je nog even….

  
  Jan Algera

  2013

  Dutch

  

  228 pg.

  Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

• The Ice Pilots

  
  Michael Vlessides

  2012

  English

  

  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” […]