Introduction /Chapter One – The Victor Emergent /Chapter Two – High-level Cold War bombing /Chapter Three – Skybolt and Blue Steel /Chapter Four – Low-level Operations /Chapter Five – Middle East and Far East adventures /Chapter Six – Versatile Victor (MRR and tanking) /Chapter Seven – Victor Ludorum (Falklands, Desert Storm)
Complete coverage of the combat missions of the Victor during the Cold War.
Andrew Brookes completed RAF pilot training after reading history at Leeds University. Following recce and strike tours on Victors, Canberras and Vulcans, during which he logged 3,500 flying hours, he served as a UK nuclear release officer in NATO. He was coordinator of air power studies at the RAF Advanced Staff College. He is now Aerospace Analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He publishes and broadcasts widely. He has written 12 aviation books, including Combat Aircraft 72 – Vulcan Units of the Cold War, and he received the Defence Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award in 2004 and 2006. Chris Davey has illustrated more than 25 titles for Osprey’s Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Aviation Elite Units series since 1994. Based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and one of the last traditional airbrush artists in the business, he has become the artist of choice for both USAAF fighters and RAF subject matter.
"As a modeler's reference, it's got good color info and many, many of those detail shots which answer those questions about what went where." --Jim Pearsall, IPMS/USA
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