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Kittyhawks over the Sands: the Canadians and RCAF Americans.(Book Review)

Air & Space Power Journal

| December 22, 2003 | Tate, Rob | COPYRIGHT 2003 U.S. Air Force. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Campaigns: MTO [Mediterranean Theater of Operations] no. 1, by Michel Lavigne and James F. Edwards. Lavigne Aviation Publications, P.O. Box 222, Victoriaville, Qc, Canada, G6P 6S8, 2002, 384 pages, $45.00.

Since 1969 the outstanding book Fighters over the Desert by the English writer Christopher Shores and his German coauthor Hans Ring has served as the standard by which one measures other aviation history books about the air war in North Africa from 1940 through 1943. Within the last year, however, two indispensable works for the historian or fan of this area of World War II history have appeared: Russell Brown's Desert Warriors: Australian P-40 Pilots at War in the Middle East and North Africa, 1941-1943 (see my review in Aerospace Power …

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