Classic RAF Battles from World War One to the Present

Air force history is well documented through archive contemporary photography, but the aviation art collected within these pages offers a further viewpoint on war in the air. For the artist chooses to capture just one moment in an often confused and high-speed action, and creates a virtual snapshot of aerial warfare. Landscape, cloudscape and aircraft are all accurately recreated with attention to the smallest detail, and the result is often a unique glimpse of the true nature of war in the air.
The forty paintings in this book come from a variety of sources - RAF stations, squadron messes, artists' own collections, private archives, plus some commissioned solely to hang on a study or living room wall and which are thus seen here for the first time. They all, however, represent work of some of the very finest aviation artists working today, and would make a fine book by themselves. To describe and comment on the art, however, Sir Michael Armitage has assembled a first-class team of RAF veterans, historians and aviation experts with the brief to write the background history of the action depicted in each painting. The result is a unique visual and written history of the RAF in action. Paintings are arranged chronologically within the decades of RAF service, and each is reproduced alongside the narrative, together with a map to pinpoint its location.
This superb collection will appeal to those who wish to admire these first-class aviation art scenes or those who may recognise and remember their own involvement in some of the events or periods depicted, and for anyone interested in the historical background to these classic RAF battles.


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