Size: 28x21cm, soft cover 

Volume: - 256 pages with 294 black and white pictures 

- 117 colour pictures, 1 map and 30 colour drawings made by Ugo Crisponi

Publication date: October 2011 

Publisher: Harpia Publishing, L.L.C. 

Retailprice: $ 48.00 USD

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Book contents: 

This book contains the most updated and complete history of the South Vietnamese Air Force, through over 20 years of existence, ending with the Fall of Saigon on 30th April 1975, the event which marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a communist state.

It sheds new light on the events of the war in Vietnam. When reading this book we can find a lot of new information, majority from North Vietnamese archives and publications perspective. So that in the book there can be found pictures taken immediately after the fall of Saigon, with VNAF aircraft  and helicopter wrecks in the streets and on the rooftops.

Beautiful 30 colour drawings made by Ugo Crisponi present to a reader previously unseen profiles of the aircraft from the final stages of the war. The total of 294 black and white pictures, some of them never published before represent the 19 years and 180 days of Vietnam war from the VNAF perspective, suplemented by 117 colour pictures. 

This book is compiled with previously unavailable documents that have emerged from official North Vietnamese archives, and also with the assistance of narratives from dozens of participants and eyewitnesses, this volume reveals that air warfare over Vietnam did not end with the last day of April in 1975.

Conclusion

It is a really great book about the history of the South Vietnamese Air Force and it is highly recommended. 

I would like to thank Harpia Publishing for providing me with this product sample.
Igor Petrovic

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