Books

There’s something for everyone here, from low-tech flying replicas to hi-tech death from the skies!

Bomber (x2) and fighters (and bombers).

Some classics (?) here: airports, biography, bombing.

Today we’re looking at the three Ps: (defence) policy, prisoners (of war), and (MM.) Pilâtre (and d’Arlandes, the first aeronauts, along with early ballooning more generally). Okay, so I need to work on my intros…

Three blitzes: the German Blitz on Britain (well, London); the British Blitz on Germany; and the robot Blitz on Britain.

Three aviation history books which have almost no actual flying between them.

I think this is a first for this series: three books by past Aviation Cultures presenters!

[This review was commissioned by the Michigan War Studies Review back in 2016, but for some reason never got published. As MiWSR is now, sadly, defunct, I guess there’s no harm in putting it up here on Airminded.] James Hamilton-Paterson. Marked for Death: The First War in the Air. New York: Pegasus Books, 2016. Vanishingly

Object history, aircrew history, history for children.