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  • Review A Soul in the Wires Book 2: The Hollywood Years

    Review A Soul in the Wires Book 2: The Hollywood Years
    Walter Leigh
    Amazon Digital Services LLC
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    267 pg.
    978-94-92-269112
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Jonathan Price, a traumatized World War I pilot returns from the horror in France and tries to start a life at his parent’s ranch in Nebraska. Restless and looking for ‘more’ in life, together with his young wife Peggy he picks up the dream of aviation barnstormers. They fly all over the Mid-West of the […]

  • Wings: FLYBOY

    Wings: FLYBOY
    Tom Palmer
    Barrington Stoke
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    88 pg.
    978-1-78112-535-9

    A book for children (8-18 yrs); of course you will let that one be read and reviewed by your daughter! ‘Funny’, ‘different’ and ‘unexpected’ my daughter called this book. It is namely not a story that you will read every day. It is a book for children and adolescents, but of course can also be […]

  • War for the Hell of it- A Fighter Pilot’s View of Vietnam

    War for the Hell of it- A Fighter Pilot’s View of Vietnam
    Ed Cobleigh
    Check Six Books
    216
    English
    X X X X X
    272 pg.
    ASIN: B01A7GI1IY
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Ed Cobleigh (Fast Eddie) served 2 tours in Vietnam as a fighter pilot flying the   F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber. He logged in total 375 combat missions over Vietnam and Cambodja and told his personal experiences in this book by a series of short stories. He served in the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron “Satan’s Angels”. All the facts […]

  • A Soul in the Wires: The Barnstormer's Dream

    A Soul in the Wires: The Barnstormer's Dream
    Walter Leigh
    2016
    English
    X X X X X
    240 pg.
    978-94-92-26-9-10-2
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This e-book tells the story of the flying life of Jonathan Pryce during the final battles of WW1 and the following years. The book starts on the front line where Jonathan is stationed as a fighter pilot, is shot down, and survives his injuries. The last days of air battle are grueling and traumatic and keep […]

  • From Sapper to Spitfire Spy

    From Sapper to Spitfire Spy
    David Greville-Heygate, Sally-Anne Greville-Heygate
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    294 pg.
    9781473843882
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    The name of the author does already gives the suspicion that this again would be a sort of ‘daddy adoration book’. And yes, indeed it is, and she doesn’t hide it! Dad was not much of a talker, but he has precisely documented how it went with him during WW II (diary, journal, letters to […]

  • Dowding's Eagles

    Dowding's Eagles
    Norman Franks
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    272 pg.
    9781473844209
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Amongst the twenty-five BoB veterans you will find, next to representatives of the whole Commonwealth, also a Polish, a Czech and a Belgian man, but no Dutch man. These I have also not been able to find on the BoB memorial plate in St. Pauls Cathedral, during a recent visit. I must admit that due […]

  • Blue Diamonds

    Blue Diamonds
    Michael Napier
    Pen and Sword Bookds
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    320 pg.
    9781473823273
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The author has conscientious collected in this book all weapon facts from the 14th squadron of the RAF in the 1945-2015 period. Who else can do this better than Michael Napier, who himself has served a long time at this squadron and has written a beautiful book about that time (Tornado above Tigris). This book […]

  • The Pilot, Fighter Planes and Paris

    The Pilot, Fighter Planes and Paris
    Ed Cobleigh
    Check Six Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    214 pg.
    ISBN-10: 0692392068 ISBN-13: 978-0692392065
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Three storylines converge in this book: flying fighter planes, interesting women and Paris. The Pilot travels, nameless, through time as a fighter pilot from the Sopwith Camel up to the Starfighter F 104, which brings him wide and far over the globe. He experiences in each of these periods, which embrace more than one human […]

  • SUKHOI Su-15- The Boeing Killer

    SUKHOI Su-15- The Boeing Killer
    Yefim Gordon
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    96 pg.
    978 1473823907
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This is one of the many photo books published by Pen & Sword Books in A4 size with 96 pages filled with an overview of the history of this Russian warplane with more then 170  black and white and colour photos of the Su-15. The authors describe within the smallest details the development and the operational live […]

  • 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 […]