Kamis, 22 Juni 2017

Aviation History Book Review: Spanish Republican Aces

Spanish Republican Aces  by Rafael A. Permuy López, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2012, $22.95.  Despite the Cold War, McCarthyism and the general disrepute into which communism has fallen in America, there remains a lingering fascination and sympathy with the Republican cause in Spain. That sympathy is undoubtedly reinforced by the fact that Fascist Italy and …

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