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Title: No dogfights, just word-fights.
Review: This is a text heavy book of fair to middling aviation art. The text is blah blah rah-rah America, than anything else. And since Handleman does not confine himself to WW I & II, but goes into the modern age, in which there is a lot of hyperbole and searching for some glorious instance in aerial combat. Unfortunately, that ended with World War II, and has not been translated to the modern era, since wars are not being fought by giant industrial powers whose existence is at stake. Although there is a long bio of R.G. Smith, there is only one of his works. Also, you will not find anything by Taylor, Trudigan, and Fellows. The redeeming features are the work of first tier artists Cohen, Dietz, and Kodera, and following them a bevy of tier 2 & 3 artists. So only, buy the deeply discounted copies.
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