ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE PILOT 1914-1918

ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE PILOT 1914-1918

Mark Barber illustrated by Adam Hook

Osprey Publishing, Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 0PH.

64pp, 185×246mm, softback.

ISBN 978-84603-949-2, £11.99.

Another book written by a current naval aviator, this is a good gallop though perhaps somewhat too big a subject for the usual Osprey format (in this case 64 pages). It is excellently illustrated with photographs from the FAA Museum archives. I would like to read a longer volume on this subject by this author, but think that this is a good introduction. I have a small niggle. This is No 152 in the Warrior series; most of it is not about people, but about aircraft, equipment, and the origins of British Naval Aviation. There is even a chapter on Museums. Nevertheless, I liked it.