The trouble with a work encompassing as much as this, is that every reader is going to look for omissions and mistakes. I read on page
one that WA Bishop, Britain, had 72 kills. Collishaw and MacLaren of Canada had 60 and 54 respectively. Randomly, there is a
two page entry for Aeroflot, in a tome called 'Air Warfare', an item headed 'French Aircraft Development and Production (World War I - Early World War II)' only mentions SPAD hyphenated with Bleriot in 1936, neither Airco nor De Havilland have entries at all, although Neville Chamberlain does, and I dare say I could go on.
This book is an American production, and slanted towards that market. Nearly all the contributors are American, with exceptions like Gregory Alegi, Andy Blackburn and Kev Darling, and
Stephane Nicolaou of the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace getting credits.
An attempt to achieve the impossible.
