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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: hazed- on October 21, 2002, 06:05:42 AM

Title: New/old books ordered and arrived :)
Post by: hazed- on October 21, 2002, 06:05:42 AM

3 books:

'Full Circle: the story of air fighting'  J.E. ('Johnnie') Johnson
ISBN 0-304-35860-6

'CombatLegend P-51 Mustang' Kev Darling  (new publication)
ISBN 1-84037-357-1

'Luftwaffe Test Pilot: Flying captured allied aircraft of WW2' Hans-Werner Lerche
ISBN 0-7106-0031-3


from a breif read of each the full circle looks by far the most interesting and from what ive read in snippets excellently written.Tells the story of air battles including some about the korean war.
The P51 book looks pretty good too with lots of photos that i havent seen before and a fairly in depth look at all the models including quite a bit about production numbers etc.Also a list of all the current Warbirds with the names of the owners their home bases and flying status civilian serial no. military number its Type and 'name'.Great list to have.
The Lufftwaffe test pilot book is an excellent companion to capt browns book on the same subject from an allied test pilots veiw :D, cool book (if a little expensive as its hard to get now out of print in UK).

Title: New/old books ordered and arrived :)
Post by: Oldman731 on October 22, 2002, 11:02:46 AM

"Full Circle" is excellent, because, of course, it's written by a true expert.  If you haven't already, you must also read his biography (limited to the war years), "Wing Leader."

- oldman