Warbird Information Exchange

Well, really - I want to have my cake and eat it too. I tend to dislike fiction because it ain't "real", and as you suggest, straight history can get a little dry. But "Chickenhawk" is juuuuuuuust right, makes me want more just like it. It's a non-fiction memoir, but just a splendid read where every page is savored, very much like General U. S. Grant's autobiography or Ernest Gann's "Fate Is The Hunter".

Or as Steve Martin once said, I don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

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Cheers,
Kurt Maurer
League City, Texas

PIC, Ford 6600 pulling Rhino batwing up and down the runway

A relatively recent one that seems to have become an instant classic. The reviews say far more than I can.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Light-Geo ... 0141008148

an oldie but a goodie...... airwar, by jablonski

japanese aircraft code names & designations, by mikesh

pancho -the biography of florence lowe barnes, by shultz

roscoe turner, by glines

spy flights of the cold war, paul lashimar

the last flight of bomber 31, by wetterhaun

japanese naval aces & fighter units in ww 2 by hata / izawa /gorham

not a title, but anything from koku fan publishing re: many obscure japanese aircraft

the lost squadron, by hayes

the divine wind, by inoguchi /nakajima / pineau

broken wings of the samurai, by robert mikesh

i could spend all day listing more great books, if you want more titles let me know. happy reading!! tom

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!