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Sopwith Camel by Jon Guttman, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2012, $18.95 One of the risks of being a geezer is remembering what it was like so many years ago, when aircraft books were published at the rate of perhaps 10 or 15 a year, and most of them were rehashes of known material. It makes …
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