Vintage Book Fighters Between the Wars 1919 - 1939 Kenneth Munson 1st Edition Aircraft Hardback with Dust Wrapper

Vintage Hardback Aircraft Book, Fighters between the Wars 1919 - 1939 by Kenneth Munson. Super First Edition book from 1970 in near mint condition with Dust Wrapper. The book covers the twenty years in aeronautical history that had seen great advances in almost every aspect of military aviation. After the War of 1914 - 18 transformed aviation into a military force.

During these decades Aeroplane design underwent a huge transformation with Rotary engines being discarded in favour of radial and inline. Wood was gradually replaced with metal bringing the new smooth skinned aeroplanes. The Twenty most eventful years in military aircraft are meticulously documented spanning 80 fighters attack and training aircraft including twin-gunne, rotary engined fighters like the Sopwith Snipe and monoplanes such as the Hawker Hurricane and the Messerschmidt Bf 109.

Lavishly illustrated with superbly detailed diagrams and artistic representations of eighty fighter planes superbly portrayed in the colours of many of the worlds Air forces. An essential guide for all Wartime Fighter Aircraft Enthusiasts!.