MUSHROOM MODEL PUBLICATIONS SPECIAL "FIGHTERS OVER FRANCE AND THE LOW COUNTRIES"
By Ray Mehlberger
RED SERIES NO. 5104
MAIN EDITOR: BARTLOMIEJ BILCARZ
ISBN 83-916327-1-7
In the last couple of years Mushroom Model Magazine (UK) has begun to translate some really great Polish aircraft books into the English language. I have reviewed several of these in past issues of Internet Modeler (check archives).
Mushroom Model Magazine is also a great publication and monthly features articles and reviews of aircraft models.
The lastest book from MMP, number 4 in their Red Series (Historical series), describes the operations of fighter units involved in combat in France, Holland, and Belgium in 1939-40. Each chapter is written by a different author, a specialist on that particular subject, and the air arms of Holland, Belgium, France, Britain and Germany are covered thoroughly. Also included are the operations of Czech and Polish airmen fighting in France.
The book is 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" soft-cover format. It contains 152 pages. There are 200 black and white wartime photos. A lot of these are showing destroyed aircraft on the ground. Nine more wartime photos are in full color. In the back of the book ,and on the rear cover, there are 39 color profiles, five of which are three views. Aircraft shown in these profiles are as follows:
Fokker D. XXI (Dutch)
Hurricane Mk. I (Belgium & RAF)
Gladiator Mk. I (Belgium & RAF)
MS 406 (France)
Hawk 75A-1 & 2 (France)
Dewoitine D520 (France)
Koolhoven KF58 (France
ME-109E-3 (Germany)
BF-110C (Germany)
Caudron Cyclone C714 (France)
Bloch 152 (France)