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Adaptation: The Way Wars are Won,
By TastyBabySyndrome "Matthew Lewis, author of M... ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: B-25 Mitchell in Action - Aircraft No. 34 (Paperback)
Although only 50 pages in length, these books are enough to fuel the imagination and tell you about planes with enough detail that you feel like you understand a little more on the arifights that went on during WWII (or other actions, depending on the books you pick up). The "in action" books are good that way - they give you a synopsis of the plane that includes a (1) a why, (2) a when, (3) a where - as in the theatre of combat, and even (4) the how much. The B-25(NA-62) contract that was award was worth 11.771 million dollars, for instance, and called for 184 airplanes. You then have the models that were available - basically adding in the upgrades - and you have other information that adds up until you know quite a bit about one flying machine.
I personally liked that because I always have liked the sky. Another thing the book has are pictures, lots of pictures, showing you the machine as it does its thing. Each model of it is represented, many of which have been personalized by crews to give them that "bombed in" sheen, plus explanations that one needs when they want to know things like "what is a ventral turret" or "what is a dorsal turret." I enjoyed these so much because they go along with my footage on various wars and on what was there and what it did, with some pictures even showing the planes low-flying across bodies of water or skimming mountains to stay low. Combine this with color montages on what they would've looked like (which is good because of all the black and white footage presented in video formats and even in this book) and you have a great deal of understanding on the machine you are looking at. While this is only 50 pages and it is lorded over by pictures, you have to remember that this is only one machine being looked at and the different models of it that found their way into battle. So, you have a lesser variant of the microscope, but more depth than you would ever get if you were simply flipping through a book on war. Even a book of vehicles wouldn't show so much depth, so it really is interesting IF this is what you are into. I found it refreshing and, along with books that cover aircraft, armor, weapons, and warships, a way to gain a more complete picture than I really thought possible. Very underestimated and well worth a look.
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Fine "In Action" title.,
By Phyllis Herring (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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Typical of this publishers In Action series. Good photographic coverage with basic text describing different versions of the aircraft; all for a reasonable price. It's certainly not meant to be the final word on the B-25 but it is a good introduction.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good reliable old reference on B-25s,
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I am an aviation artist, and I have always used "In Action" books as references for my paintings. The only thing I wish is that they could have more visual references of markings used in the CBI theater of WWII.
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