About the Author

Philip Kaplan is a Californian author and art-director who know lives in Cheltenham with his English wife, also an author. He has a long-standing fascination with aviation and naval history and has had ten previous books published by Abbeville, Cassell, Random House and Aurum. To date his books have sold well over a quarter of a million copies world-wide.

Reviews

"very approachable, precisely because it stays away from the engineering minutia, and deftly describes the contexts in which these machines were hatched, the expectations for them, and how they delivered...This is about as ideal a book to give as a gift to pretty much anyone with an interest in the world around them--if you can bring yourself to part with it."-- "SpeedReaders.info"