2004 First Edition first printing. Hardback 4to. 672pp. numerous photographs. Green paper boards gilt title to spine. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper.
Those Other Eagles covers the British, Commonwealth and Free European fighter pilots who claimed between two and four victories in aerial combat between 1939 and 1982. This extension from 1945 to 1982 does not add a great percentage of entries, but is all the more valuable because so little is written about this long period of time, which included wars in Malaysia, Korea and the Falklands.
In 671 very well written pages, Shores provides us more than 1,800 entries from Wing Commander Richard James Abrahams to Squadron Leader Jozef Zulikowski. Each entry gives the name rank and serial number, the dates of the victory, the type of aircraft shot down, the type of aircraft being flown by the victor, and often includes the latter’s serial number and/or letter markings.
This massive, extensively researched volume is an indispensable companion to the eminent historian Christopher Shores’ other seminal work (with Clive Williams), Aces High, Volumes one and two. .