Book reviews
TUTOR TRIBUTE
Leonardo’s M-346 (ex-Aermacchi) trainer and light-attack aircraft has been in service since 2015 with the Italian, Israeli, Polish and Singaporean air forces.
‘DEFLATED’ REPORTS
One of the best ways to counter exaggerated claims of air-to-air victories during combat is to examine the records from both sides, and this is the second set of Pacific Theatre accounts compiled by Michael Claringbould after comparing such information.
BALTIC BATTLES
The siege of Leningrad receives considerable attention from historians, but the campaign following its relief by Soviet forces in 1944 appears to have attracted much less attention when compared to events to the south.
LATE-PRODUCTION TWINS
Kagero has dedicated two of its TopDrawings publications to Messerschmitt’s Bf 110 and while the first covers early machines, the second is devoted to the later production Bf 110E to -G versions.
CLASSIC DIVE-BOMBER
Modellers with Stuka projects in any scale will find Valiant Wings’ latest Airframe & Miniature invaluable.
FREE TO FLY
The 26th addition to MMP’s Polish Wings series explores how crews enlisted from liberated areas of Poland trained to fly the Soviet-designed Petlyakov Pe-2 divebomber, transitioning to them from the Tupolev USB trainer via the dual-control UPe-2 sub-variant.
ARMOURED GROUCH
While many books have dealt with German’s Sturmpanzer (also known as Brummbär – grouch), this is one of the first to examine a specific unit.
UNSUCCESSFUL SALIENT
Casemate’s treatise on Operation Market Garden is a superbly detailed study of the combined aerial and land-based ‘push’ into the Netherlands during September 1944, which ultimately fell short of its targets.
ARMOURED CATS IN THE WEST
Dennis Oliver’s third volume on Tiger I and II tanks covers German Army and Waffen-SS units on the Western Front during the final months of World War Two.
AIRBORNE LEVIATHANS
The third volume in Crécy’s American Secret Projects series is the final element of a two-part collection on airlifter designs and covers aircraft from 1962 to the present day.