Aircraft of the Aces Legends of World War 2

by Holmes, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781841761565
• ISBN10: 1841761567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-25
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Summary

This book is not available to customers in North America - please see the separate North American edition, ISBN 1 84176 156 7. The Aircraft of the Aces series, devised by Tony Holmes in 1994, has become the most successful list of books ever published by Osprey during its 30-year history. One of the key ingredients to the series' success is the specially-commissioned cover artwork by Iain Wyllie, which has received praise from across the globe. Osprey is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the The Aces Collection, a unique and beautiful celebration of the aeroplanes and cover illustrations which are an artform in themselves. Thirty paintings from thirty different Aces books will be featured in full colour, each with information about the aircraft depicted in the artwork, the pilot flying it, and the action in which it is involved. Contemporary black and white photography and colour profiles complete this unbeatable package.

Table of Contents

Foreword by An Commodore Peter Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC and BAR	6	(2)
Foreword by Colonel Clarence E `Bud' Anderson USAF Retired	8	(2)
Introduction by the Artist	10	(4)
Introduction by the Author	14	(4)
Bosom Patrol	18	(4)
Blunting of the Zerstorer	22	(4)
Battle of Britain Day	26	(4)
Final Victory	30	(4)
North African Hawk	34	(4)
`Star of Afrika'	38	(4)
Action in `The Slot'	42	(4)
Duke of 92	46	(4)
My Hardest Dogfight	50	(4)
Jabo Hunters	54	(4)
First Corsair Ace	58	(4)
First of Many	62	(4)
`Red 1'	66	(4)
Seven Down	70	(4)
`Checkertail Clan'	74	(4)
Night Fighter	78	(4)
The Long Reach	82	(4)
`Illu'	86	(4)
`Hades Red Flight'	90	(4)
Betty Jane	94	(4)
Dziubek	98	(4)
`Sturmbock'	102	(4)
Slovakian Spitfire Success	106	(4)
McCampbell and Minsi III	110	(4)
Old Crow over Germany	114	(4)
Ace in a day	118	(4)
The `Flying Undertaker'	122	(4)
`Red 13'	126	(4)
Hero of the Soviet Union	130	(4)
`Master Falcon'	134	(4)
Appendices	138