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Welcome to our new-look 'Books' page! Since we have taken on so many publishers from various countries over the last year, we decided to split the selections up into national categories (relating to where the publisher is based rather than subject matter).

We will now use this page to alert you to new and forthcoming publications available from Linden Hill Imports.

Click here for all the new releases from AirDoc

Now in stock:

'IRAQI FIGHTERS - 1953-2003: Camouflage & Markings' (HPA 001: $49.90)

Authors:   Brig. Gen. Ahmad SADIK & Tom COOPER

Publisher Harpia Publishing (July 2008)

Summary:
This book provides an exclusive insight into the service history of 13 fighter jet types  - from Vampires and Hunters to MiG-29s and Su-24s -
which served with Royal Iraqi Air Force (RIrAF) and Iraqi Air Force (IrAF) between 1953 and 2003.
 
Serious investigative research, including exclusive primary evidence gathered by the authors both inside and outside Iraq,  has generated a level of
detail and color of unmatched degree in any previous publications about any Arab air force.

The result is a detailed history not only of RIrAF and IrAF markings, serials and camouflage patterns, but also the history of every Iraqi fighter
squadron, their equipment over the time period in question, as well as unit and various special insignias.

Richly illustrated with photographs and artwork, the book provides details about a number of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons, many put
to the ultimate test only by the Iraqi air force. A list of original names for air bases used by IrAF is also included.

* 156 pages

* 44 black & white photos

* 96 color photos

* 67 artworks

* size 20 x 28 cm

* softcover
 

'Mi-26 Heavylift Helicopter' (Product code: MI26. $32)

Another in the 'Legends of Aviation' series from Novosibirsk, Russia. Softback, 120 pages, Russian text with English photo captions and 7-page English summary. over 130 color photos in the main body of the book, plus full 'walkaround' (256 photos). Limited stocks.

Mig-3 Fighter (Product code: MIG3. $25)

This book is part of a new 'legends of aviation' series, published by 'Medved' of Novosibirsk. 123 pages of Russian text with English-language captions and 4-page English summary. Many color profiles, archive photos, 1/72 plans, cutaways and a large 4-color 'walkaround' section, featuring the original MiG-3 recently restored in Novovsibirsk. Limited availability.

Flying Legend - An-2 and An-3 (Product code: AN23. $45)

Hardback, Russian-language text, 200 pages, many b/w and 4c photos, 3 pages of 4c profiles, 7 pages of scale profiles. An excellent illustrated history of the An-2 family, published in Ukraine to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the An-2. Limited quantities available.

Aeroflot Liner Antonov An-10 (Product code: AN10. $18.50)

Soft cover, Russian-language text, 50 pages. Many b/w photos, pull-out section with 1/96 scale plans.

AEROLIT 005.'Red Fields - Russian Military Airfields in Germany 1945 -1994' (US$65)

An amazing German-language book, which carries on where Lutz Freundt's four-volume series 'Soviet Air Forces in Germany' left off. The 300 profusely illustrated pages (575 photos) cover not only the airfields, units and aircraft deployed in the GDR, but also cover the post-WWII Luftwaffe airfields in Eastern Prussia (Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad, etc.), Pomerania, Eastern Brandenburg and Silesia (now Poland).

AEROLIT 006 'Wall Flyers - The Berlin Air Corridor and Tempelhof Airport' (US$22)

German-language photo-album documenting the history of the Corridor from 1945 to 1990. Another 'must-have' book from Lutz Freundt for students of the Cold War and modelers alike. 168 pages, 300 photos.

Airacobras over Kuban (product code: AVRO 002: $24.99)

The new book from our good friend Valery Romanenko. This 96-page volume features many newly discovered photos of Soviet P-39K, L and M variants, along with some interesting pictures from the archives of the Niagara Aerospace Museum regarding the Lend-Lease delivery of P-39s to the USSR. Includes two pages of 4c profiles, a four-page section of 4c photos and an A3 sheet of 1/48 scale plans, taken from Soviet archives. You can find a review here:

http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Research/BookReviews/AiracobraKuban/ruchkovsky_review.php

Text is in Russian with English-language photo captions. We're hoping to persuade Valery to include an English-language precis with his next book!

AOB001 $39.99

This lavishly illustrated 150-page volume charts the history of the VVS's 812th Fighter Air Regiment from its inception in March 1942, through to the liberation of the Crimea in May 1944. A second volume will chart the 812th's role in the liberation of Europe in the final year of the war. In addition to be the first VVS air regimental combat history published fully in English, the book contains 30 full color maps and diagrams, 26 large color scale profiles and 12 pages of deeply researched scale plans of the Yak fighter variants flown by the 812th IAP during the time period covered by the book. In short, it is a must-have volume for anyone interested in the air war on the Eastern Front.

TSR3 'Zlins...' $19.50

German-language photo-album on Zlin series of trainers. 50 pages in 4-color. Includes many unpublished photos and lots of profiles of Zlins in international. An essential reference book when building the excellent little Toga Z-42M kit.

Mil Mi-8 (EKSP 003: $12.00)

MiG-29 frontal fighter (EKSP 002: $12.00)

Aircraft of the GDR - Vol. 4. Photos and Documents (Product code: DDR 4. Price: $33.50)

This final installment is in effect a 180-page photo album featuring over 300 photos (200 in color) of all types of aircraft in service in the GDR. These photos were submitted to the publishers following the publication of the first three volumes in the series. There are numerous gems to be found within the covers, including very rare shots of the NVA's sole Il-28U in flight and an early MiG-23S in Soviet markings acquired by the NVA . Such photos were taken at great personal risk to the cameraman! This volume cannot be recommended highly enough.

Polygon's Russian Aircraft in Action series. Each book in this new English-language series contains roughly 80 pages packed with large format photographs (in b/w and 4 c), profiles and plans. A bargain at $17.95 per issue!

POLYR 002 Su-24 $17.95

POLYR 003 $17.95

New series now available from AirDoc:

'I-15bis fighter' by Mikhail Maslov (Product code: I15B. $17)

'African MiGs' by Tom Cooper (Product code: AFRM 01. $69.99)

Sudanese MiG-25s?

This 'Meisterwerk' is truly a labor of love and the definitive volume on Soviet/CIS military aircraft in service with Sub-Saharan African air forces and paramilitary organizations. Just published privately by Vienna's SHI Publications, it runs to 158 pages (softback) and has been printed in only small numbers. We may not be able to restock once our original shipment runs out.

To quote the publisher, "This book is illustrated with more than 70 excellent and unique colour artworks, some 20 tables with details of the organisational structure, units, single aircraft and attrition charts, as well as five maps."

Lockheed F-104F/ TF-104G Starfighter (F40-045: $17.99)

"Knights of the Clouds" by Dr. Istvan Toperczer (TO 001: $39.99)

This new bilingual edition of the Istvan's book cannot be recommended highly enough. This hardback 158-page book is a pictorial history of the Hungarian Air Force's aircraft from the introduction of the new Chevron insignia in 1991 to 2001. The entire book is filled with stunning color photographs (some air-to-air) taken by Istvan himself over the decade in question. This new edition differs from earlier editions (still available for instance from some of the larger booksellers in the UK) in that it includes a whole new thirty-page section in English together with an additional selection of color photos. The text covers the post-war histories of every major Hungarian Air Regiment. Essential reading for the aviation historian. Many of the HuAF's unique special color schemes are also covered photographically by Istvan. Aircraft featured include the MiG-21, Su-22, MiG-29, L-39, Mi-24, Mi-8, An-26, Mi-2, MiG-23 and Yak-52.

Aircraft of the GDR - Vol. 3. 1972 - 1990 (Product code: DDR 3. Price: $29.50)

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