Air Warfare: Encyclopedia of 20th Century Conflict [Hardcover]

Peter G. Cooksley (Author), Bruce Robertson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

Part of a trilogy covering military action in the last 100 years, this reference text provides a chronology of significant events in 20th-century military aviation, describing not only air action, but also new inventions and first uses. Personalities are also included in this book, and there is an A-Z listing of conflicts, equipment, bases, weapons and aircraft types. Also included are national profiles of all countries who have boasted an air force, showing how they equipped and developed it. Completely international in coverage, the book covers all elements of military aviation - machines, people, events and weaponry.

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A companion to The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Conflict: Land Warfare, which we reviewed in the October 15, 1997, issue. Covers equipment, weaponry, bases, locations, tactics, personalities, and events, with a British emphasis.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 287 pages
• Publisher: Arms & Armour Press; 1st edition (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1854092235
• ISBN-13: 978-1854092236
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,539,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, July 29, 2000

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Tsahi Ben-Ami (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Air Warfare: Encyclopedia of 20th Century Conflict (Hardcover)

Behind the title "The encyclopedia of 20th century conflict - Air Warfare" hides a very superficial book.

As an Israeli, naturally, I searched for information concerning Israel and the middle east - Arab-Israeli air warfare history.

I found a map concerning Operation "Moked" (the Israeli wipe-off of the Arab air power at the beginning of the Six Day war of 1967) but no decription of the operation nor the name of it (in the operation section) were found. I continued with my search going to 1982 looking for information of the major dogfight in which the Israeli AF downed 92 Syrian fighters just in 2 hours - (a third of the Syrian airpower and the largest dogfight in the jet age...) "9 June (1982) The Israelis launch the first of a series of attacks intended to destroy Syrian SAM system in the Lebanon". If you would wonder what was the previous major Air Warfare chronologic event - "3 June (1982) Leaflets calling for an Argentine surrender are dropped on Port Stanley and an RAF Vulcan lands at Brazilian airport after flying from Ascension"...

Other Air Warfare events like the Entebbe raid are not even mentioned, nor could I find an image of an F-15 or F-4 Phantom...

Concerning photos - the book has quite a lot of interesting images (my reason for buying the book was a photo of an Israeli Mosquito) of tested variants of the V-1 flying bomb both in Russia and USA and other interesting historivcal images.

If you are looking for a good book about Air Warfare - this might not be the best choice, but if you are looking for more inforamtion or interesting images this book is comes as an option. In general you will find some interesting info