Who is he?
Pass. But thanks!
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Seconded. We might not know what we’re missing but I’m good with that, haha.
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LOL! Sorry guys, just having a little fun. I should’ve paid more attention to the thread title. Post deleted.
Hi y’all!
I need help from the community here…
My son asked for Christmas a book (possibly in German) about modern planes but filled with illustrations like this:
Star Wars Complete Vehicles New Edition : Hidalgo, Pablo, Fry, Jason: Amazon.de: Bücher
I tried to look around but it’s either simple encyclopedia of planes pictures or a book about one plane with that sort of Tech Drawings.
Anyone has seen or posses a book like that?
Search for “aircraft cutaways”. You will get a ton of hits, but more appropriate for your location and language.
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Thanks!
For @chipwich
Doug Marlette was a Pullitzer prize-winning cartoonist, best known for his political cartoons, and his comic strip Kudzu, about the Reverend Will B. Dunne and his church.
At the urging of his close friend Pat Conroy, best known for The Prince of Tides, he wrote two novels, before his untimely death in a car accident in 2007.
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I’m looking for books about the Ffalklands war. Not just “books” but stuff that you guys have actually read.
I know there are some titles thrown around all over the forum but can we collect the here?
Thanks! ^-^
Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings.
It goes in to a lot of detail beyond the jingoistic popular stuff you’ll have read before.
Don’t Cry for me Sergeant Major by Jeremy Hands and Robert McGowan is a bit more low brow and was written not long after they came back in 1983.
The latter I last read probably around 1990, so not sure how it’s stood the test of time. Especially since all the enquiries. It’s also likely not very pc in this day and age.
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Appreciate!
Thanks man!
The PC crowd (and I count myself on the fringe of that) should be more respectful of the past. When reading text from a previous age, the differences in moral and cultural background should be taken note of. It is one way of honouring what was won, and against what odds to see how things were viewed in the past.
Trying to whitewash the past os a grave sin imo.
And yes this is an unabashedly political post. I will delete if needed, but I don’t think I’ll have to 
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I agree, but I don’t think the keyword should be respect- it’s maybe better to use “understanding”.
I mean… Everything that happened in the past is also solidly stuck there.
So, pretty silly for some PC endorser to try and correct the past.
Rather, teach it in school, and explain why we do things differently now.
Or am I wrong?
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“Sea Harrier over the Falklands” by Sharkey Ward is not only a great book written by someone who was there, but also one that provides a few glimpses into the Royal Navy during that time.
A bit salty at times though.
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+1 for max hastings. He was the on site reporter based on one of the destroyers.
A great read.
All of his books are wonderful
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Thank you all, this is brilliant! 
For the air war, if you were only going to read one book, I’d probably recommend Rowland White’s Harrier 809 for a couple of reasons. It’s not only a tale of the air operations, but also of the logistical challenges creating, assembling, and moving the task force to the South Atlantic. The book gives a mostly pragmatic view of a wide swath of operations, without prejudices that help lay the groundwork for understanding what might be thought of are opposing points of view in other books.
Those seem to be in two schools of thought, how well the Harrier, Royal Navy, and to a lesser extent the RAF fought the war, and the other, how poorly the RN mismanaged the air war. The biggest critic is that of RAF Sqd Ldr Jerry Pook, who in his, RAF Harrier Ground Attack Falklands, details how after the first day’s attack on the Port Stanley airfield, the RN chose not to fly ground attack missions in their SHARs. That was left to the RAF’s Gr.3 for the remainder of the war, thus keeping the Battle of Britain victors clear of air to air engagements, that he labels the big South Atlantic turkey shoot.
Pook contends that the mission tasking rarely was appropriate, timely, or carried enough intel to be effective. He further complains about the lack of properly trained FACs, and stated that most of the time he was at odds with everyone in the RN from the ship’s captain to the force commander, who in total possessed little knowledge as how to best use air assets to process the ground war. It’s hard to argue with Pook’s detailed reasoning, and I feel that the book is worth a read to gain that perspective.
A victory gained and a point made, but at a dear cost to all involved.
I would like to read a book from the Argentine perspective. If anyone can recommend an English translation, it would be appreciated. Their surface attack aircrews were certainly courageous, skillful, and fought with ingenuity, given what they faced. Imagine running a gauntlet of ship defenses and AIM-9 equipped Harriers to close attack with iron bombs.
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