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Marcel Dassault Mirage III. Pere
Redón. This book is a concise, illustrated
history of the legendary Dassault Mirage
III. Covered are its technical developments,
markings, and use by French, Spanish and
other forces.
Size:11”x8.5”•68bw/color images•48pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-4370-4•soft•$12.99
The Book of Air Shows Philip Handleman. This
book is a full-color celebration of the great Ameri-
can air shows. From the early bi- and tri-planes, to
the WWII era warbirds, up to the present day F-15
and SR-71, any and all aircraft that fly through the
modern air shows is presented.
Size:9”x12”•200colorphotos•176pp.
ISBN:0-88740-471-5•hard•$49.95
Aerial Firefighting Wolfgang Jendsch. Includes
fire-extinguishing planes known as airtankers,
firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction
and command planes essential to successful fire-
fighting.Many rare,never-before-published images
show firefighting aircraft in action. The detailed text
provides technicaldescriptionsof forest fire fighting
and speculates on the future of firefighting aviation.
Size:9”x12”•415colorphotos•352pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3068-1•hard•$49.99
R.G. Smith: The Man and His Art An
Autobiography with Rosario “Zip” Rausa.
“R.G.” describes his transition from helping
design tactical aircraft to painting them in
such compelling and dramatically beautiful
fashion that he earned a worldwide reputation
as one of the most skilled and admired avia-
tion artists of all time. Includes an excellent
sampling of his non-aviation art depicting
landscape, harbor and other scenes from
the far west.
Size:11”x8.5”•140color/bwphotos•112pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0755-X•hard•$29.95
Unmanned Air Vehicles: An Illustrated
Study of UAVs Bill Holder. Although the prime
mission of military UAVs has been reconnaissance
and surveillance, there is also consideration for
mounting weapons on the vehicles. Surprisingly,
just about every type of propulsion system has
been considered, and they have used both single
and multiple engines, with piston, rotary, turbojet,
pulsejet, and rocket engines.
Size:8.5”x11”•150color/bwphotos•72pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1500-5•soft•$19.95
MiG-29 Flight Manual Alan R. Wise. The
MiG-29 Fulcrum is acknowledged as the finest
lightweight, multi-role fighter ever produced in
Russia. This book provides a rare and unprec-
edented glimpse inside a top Russian aircraft.
Using information that only a few years ago was
highly classified, this translated text presents
an extraordinary look at the capabilities and
complexities of one of the very best fighters of
the current age.
Size:8.5”x11”•110colorphotos•160pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1389-4•soft•$24.95
OTHER COUNTRIES
Dassault Mirage: The Combat Log Salvador
Mafé Huertas. The first book ever to chronicle in
detail all of the Mirage III, 5, F1 and 2000 aircraft
and specifically their use in combat operations.
The Mirage has seen more combat than any pres-
ent day jet fighter, including action in the Six-Days
War, the Falklands, the Gulf War and many other
lesser known conflicts.
Size:9”x12”•400color/bwphotos•208pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0168-3•hard•$59.95
The Israeli Air Force 1947-60: An Illus-
trated History Salvador Mafé Huertas. Israel
exists because of the resolute people that live in
this small country, both civilian and military, but
above all because of the Chel Ha’avir, which in
the following years would be proclaimed the most
combat experienced air force in the world.
Size:8.5”x11”•190bw/colorphotos•176pp.
ISBN:0-7643-0390-2•hard•$35.00
Hammers: Israel’s Long-Range Heavy
Bomber Arm - The Story of 69 Squadron
Aloni & Avidror. From the B-17 Flying Fortress
and PBY Catalina, to the F-15I Thunder, Israeli
Air Force 69 Squadron, the Hammers, has always
been the long-range, heavy bombing element of
Israeli air power. This book unveils the full story
of Israeli B-17 operations, the complete story of
how the Israeli Phantoms defeated the Syrian SAM
network in Lebanon, the thundering introduction
of the F-15I into Israeli service, and much more.
Size:8.5”x11”•300color/bwphotos•228pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3655-3•hard•$59.99
Vultures over Israel: The Vautour in Israeli
Service Squadron 110 • 1957-71 Shlomo
Aloni. The French Vautour was designed to serve
as an attack aircraft, bomber and nightfighter. Israel
purchased all three versions and was the only
nation to operate all three types. Sqdn.110 recon
Vautours collected imagery crucial for IAF Opera-
tion Focus, the pre-emptive strike that opened the
June 1967 Six Day War.
Size:8.5”x11”•400color/bwphotos•256pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3960-8•hard•$59.99
Flying Dragons: The South Vietnamese Air
Force Robert C. Mikesh. This book contains the
most complete history of the South Vietnamese
Air Force. In many ways, this is an American story;
since VNAF was organized, trained, equipped,
and attained its maximum strength under the
tutelage of the U.S. military. This updated book
now features an abundance of color photos and
new incites of the air force’s role in that war that
have settled with time.
Size:8.5”x11”•300bw/colorphotos•224pp.
ISBN:0-7643-2158-7•hard•$49.95
Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980-88 Cooper &
Bishop. This book focuses on the role of the air
power in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, one of
most underestimated and under-researched events
in the history of aerial warfare. The authors have
made full use of extensive research, eyewitness
accounts, interviews with dozens of people directly
involved, as well as recently declassified docu-
ments and photos from around the world which
are published here for the first time.
Size:8.5”x11”•200bw/colorphotos•304pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1669-9•hard•$39.95
GERMAN AVIATION
WORLD WAR I
WWI German Aviators: The Sanke Cards
Charles Woolley. Clear, large scale images of all
known and highly collectible Sanke personality
photo postcards produced during WWI are now
available, carefully replicated, and included all
under one cover in this deluxe volume. Over
270 different cards of 132 individual aviators are
included in this ground-breaking edition.
Size:8.5”x11”•300bwphotos•272pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1879-9•hard•$69.95
Schlachtflieger! Germany and the Origins
of Air/Ground Support • 1916-18 Duiven
& Abbott. This book presents the history of the
Schutzstaffeln from their formation as escort air-
craft, to their being renamed Schlachtstaffeln and
their role as infantry support aircraft. Participating
in all the major German offenses on the Western
Front in 1918, and manned mainly by enlisted
pilots and gunners, these units became the first
true close air support squadrons.
Size:8.5”x11”•200bw/colorphotos•400pp.
ISBN:0-7643-2441-1•hard•$79.95
The Imperial German Eagles in World War
I: Their Postcards and Pictures Vol.1 Lance
Bronnenkant. Postcards featuring German WWI
aviators have long been collected, traded, and
reproduced, but no author until now has focused
on determining when, where, why, and by whom
these pictures were taken, or when and why they
were issued as postcards. This work pursues the
answers to those questions, and unfolds like a
detective story that relates the investigation and as-
sembly of evidence from a wide variety of sources.
Size:8.5”x11”•600bwphotos•400pp.
ISBN:0-7643-2440-3•hard•$69.95
The Imperial German Eagles in World War
I: Their Postcards and Pictures Vol.2 Lance
Bronnenkant. The second volume in a three-book
series, looks at the remainder of Sanke’s aviator
cardsnumbered544-685.Sanke,LierschandNPG
postcards featuring German WWI aviators have
been collected, traded, and reproduced in many
publications over the years, but no author until now
has focused on determining when, where, why, and
by whom these pictures were taken, or when and
why they were issued as postcards.
Size:8.5”x11”•600bwphotos•400pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-2928-9•hard•$69.95
The Imperial German Eagles in World War
I: Their Postcards and Pictures Vol.3 Lance
Bronnenkant. Where the preceding two books of
this pioneer series focused on the WWI German
aviators featured on Sanke postcards, this final
volumeexaminesadditionalpostcardpresentations
of WWI German airmen as published by Liersch,
NPG, Hoffmann, Rothenberg and other more
obscure companies.
Size:8.5”x11”•800bwphotos•440pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-3764-2•hard•$79.99
German Aces of WWI: The Picto-
rial Record Franks & VanWyngarden.
The images of famous airmen such as
Richthofen, Udet, and Voss are well
known and frequently published, but the
same cannot be said for all of the over
300 German airmen who achieved five or
more aerial victories in WWI. Each photo
is accompanied by a brief service history
and victory total of the ace.
Size:11”x8.5”•330bwphotos•192pp.
ISBN:0-7643-2117-X•hard•$59.95
Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in
WWI and the Men Who Earned Them:
Volume VII - The Aviation Awards of Eight
German States and the Three Free Cities
Neal W. O’Connor. The last of O’Connor’s series
covering the air awards and pilots of Imperial
Germany. The eight German states appear first
in alphabetical order. Among the 43 biographies
included in this volume are: Althaus, Böhme, von
Cossel, Dornheim, Flörke, Friedewald, von Grone,
and Haehnelt.
Size:8.5”x11”•700bwphotos•528pp.
ISBN:0-7643-1626-5•hard•$69.95
The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the
German Naval Airship Division Douglas H.
Robinson. The standard reference now revised
and expanded. Robinson opened up his vast photo
archives to enhance this new edition of his classic
work. Much of the new photographic material is
published here for the first time.
Size:8.5”x11”•350bwphotos•400pp.
ISBN:0-88740-510-X•hard•$49.95
Dreamliner: The Boeing 787. Claude G.
Luisada and Steven D. Kimmell. Follow the
life of this aircraft from its initial inception to
the delivery of the first production models.
Includes many illustrations carefully chosen
to assist the reader in better understanding
and visualizing many of the new features
found on the Dreamliner.
Size: 11” x 8 1/2” • 125 b/w and color photos
•128pp.
ISBN:978-0-7643-4637-8•hardcover•$35.00
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