Some Future Titles of Interest for SPF Members

[phil gollin]

More naval books listed on Amazon.co.uk;

Coastal Motor Boats: Thornycroft and the Origins of Fast Attack Craft -- Hardcover – 30 July 2025

Russian Cruisers of the Tsarist Era: 1880–1918 - Hardcover – 30 Sept. 2025

Japanese Aircraft Carriers: 1920 - 1945 -
Hardcover – 30 Sept. 2025

Submarine Aircraft Carriers: From World War I to the Age of Drones - Hardcover – 18 Nov. 2025

 

[Owens Z]

Japanese Aircraft Carriers: 1920 - 1945 -
Hardcover – 30 Sept. 2025

A forthcoming technical history about the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy is potentially great news, joining the forthcoming John Jordan book on French carriers, and Norman Friedman's two books on British Carriers. What a cornucopia for later this year; thanks for the notice Phil Gollin. I don't know the author, Ermanno Martino, although I see he has several works to his credit going back many years. How is his (or his translator's) written English? And the page count listed here seems worrisome: can this book do justice to the wide-ranging subject in only 128 pages?

See: https://www.waterstones.com/book/japanese-aircraft-carriers/ermanno-martino/9781036133528

 

[Owens Z]

ISBN: 9781800352971
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: 280mm x 216mm
Pages: 280
Photos/Illus: Over 150 photographs

Finally to be available on Amazon.com as of 31 March 2024! (Also applies to "Wings of Argentina".)

Two interesting books gatoraptor.

Also slipped to 31 May.

Now that William M Cahill's new book Ferret! USAAF Airborne Signals Intelligence 1942-1945 has been published worldwide, has anybody here read it? If yes, please consider commenting. Presumably Hikoki did their usual excellent job in page layout and color reproduction, but how is the writing? Given the subject matter (American electronic warfare flights during WW2), I would be interested in principle in buying a copy, if the book is indeed worthwhile. That the author is "a former USAF officer with a reconnaissance background" is a good sign, but please let us know.

 

[Owens Z]

A couple of new books in Crecy's Hikoki range coming up this year:
Wings of Argentina by Santiago Rivas and Fernando Benedetto due in June

Finally to be available on Amazon.com as of 31 March 2024! (Also applies to "Wings of Argentina".)

Wings of Argentina: Argentina's Aircraft Industry Since 1927​

The long-awaited Hikoki book Wings of Argentina: Argentina's Aircraft Industry Since 1927 now looks like May 2025. Perhaps of special interest are Kurt Tank's Pulqui II jet fighter, the IA-63 Pampa, and Falklands War vet Pucará (I had seen a war trophy at Duxford), although presumably this 384p book will include plenty that I, and maybe you, have never heard of.

P.S. I haven't yet read it, but co-author Santiago Rivas had also written the Hikoki book Wings of the Malvinas: The Argentine Air War Over the Falklands.

 

[edwest4]

Super-Battleships of World War I: The lost battleships of the Washington Treaty​

https://www.amazon.com/Super-Battleships-World-War-battleships-Washington/dp/1472866908/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3yC2UMWUeJZ0GYpqOAo-UYGcbkfjQobFEuT5oD9j8MZivPkZPNw9EkGT3jxBVtFsWjcsLwM5_b2UcMumVnWUTJ3BIfhlYVb8d9bsW4jOFmwhAjtfpUYc9_ZBc2cJIwgRaeouDTFkJUxqs2Np3w7UW4CC2HiUw5cGwNdP6uF78uXMDduW-97Qaxl-qWRFKjPHs0wqW9Pi78K4KWYJWqsaj_N8pZDEVjkwbLIrIiiU7Xg.m2O5A3Jb-xeROWlqTL1s2BcNbcXooxI66foL43lSfJY&dib_tag=se&qid=1740168219&refinements=p_n_publication_date%3A1250228011&s=books&sr=1-1

 

[edwest4]

Over Cold War Seas: NATO and Soviet Naval Aviation, 1949–89​

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Cold-War-Seas-Aviation/dp/1472865529/ref=sr_1_21?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bE_XOo91YQTB2AiaqPtpNQX8f43Qva_8b0vFOhnXdBA4P6HdnpgjSje8XifD4l6aH83ABfcZUPPm1dfR7emQ6GxO0q1zOso9eAidrCbovBfOd3BK7hUXAa7Azd6gYAXEKFJL8h-E0q0ysdnZ-fpQvYyMoqoBCJce949_B4QV4wYhCI5UhQfJNAAD0b-N11powdvJ7-jIxhNmXv35qIysvH_GCTiCvb3ftGrjDfqOhfs.NtBNlLCiaxEhDUojdvRMTa8XUM5QZl_qFNEZRX--fRw&dib_tag=se&qid=1740168542&refinements=p_n_publication_date%3A1250228011&s=books&sr=1-21&xpid=m8QX5x31NHFiX

 

[Zaltys]

Same as above, but from the publisher:

Over Cold War Seas

Michael Napier describes the naval air power deployed by NATO, Warsaw Pact and neutral countries throughout the Cold War. In 1949, an Iron Curtain was drawn acr…

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