War Planes of the Second World War: Fighters, Volume 2

War Planes Of The Second World War (Green) #2

by William Green

London, Macdonald, 1961, 16mo quadrato leg. editoriale con sovr. ill. colori, pp. 192 completamente ill. Prima edizione.

Genres: Aviation

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Adapted from Wikipedia:
William Green (1927 – 2 January 2010) was an aviation and military author, following service with Britain's Royal Air Force, where he wrote for the Air Training Corps Gazette (later to be become the Air Pictorial).
Green was Technical Director to the RAF Flying Review, and then Editorial Director when it became Flying Review International. In 1971 he and Gordon Swanborough jointly created the monthly Air International, of which he remained Managing Editor until late 1990.
Green edited numerous editions of Observers book of Aircraft and spent most of his adult life doing research and writing on aircraft and aviation. His work Warplanes of the Third Reich is seen as a classic aviation publication. Along with Gordon Swanborough, he also wrote several books for Salamander Books including The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Worlds Commercial Aircraft, Illustrated Anatomy of the World's Fighters and Flying Colours.

Reviews

[Daniel Rex · Rating 5 out of 5]

William Green is known to be the best writer about World War II combat aircraft, and this series of compact but detailed handbooks cemented his reputation in the early 1960s. Volume 2 looks in depth at all British and Italian fighter aircraft, including great detail on every Mark/variants of the Hawker Hurricane, Spitfire, Beaufighter and Mosquito as well as the Typhoon and Tempest. Little known and prototype aircraft are included as well as the early British jets, the Meteor and Vampire. Italian fighters of course include the late biplanes, radial engined G 50, MC 200 and Re 2000 and also their DB inline engined upgrades, which were among the best fighter aircraft of WW2. Rare and interesting twin engined heavy fighter prototypes are also detailed.
A great addition to this series, and contains detailed information on rare prototype projects which would stump many a WW2 aviation buff in a extreme trivia quiz!