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Fokker Dr1
Aces of
WW1
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 | Norman Franks and Greg van Wyngarden, Osprey Publishing, 96 pages, softback,
ISBN 1-84176-223-7
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 | Reviewed by George Miller in Vol 32 No 4, Winter 2001
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These are all really good value comprehensive works on their stated subjects. The format is attractive and the presentation excellent. As the titles indicate, the pilots rather than the aircraft are the stars, although there are many excellent (by the standards of the era) photographs of aircraft as well as men, and at least 40 pieces of original art work (by Harry Dempsey) in each volume, together with many scale drawings.
The Fokker is billed as the most famous fighter on either side in WWI. I think that is more to do with Richthofen than the aeroplane, but it is a good subject for an argument.
I feel that a gap has been very adequately filled in the bibliography of World War I aviation with the publication of these monographs, and await the succeeding volumes promised (including SPAD XIII)
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