Israel's Air Force: 1948 to Today

by Samuel M. Katz

Provides a history of the IAF, and looks at the people and planes behind it, with photographs of such aircraft as Cobras, Falcons, Mirages, and MiGs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879385340
• ISBN13: 9780879385347
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Great Hel Ha-Avir (IAF) Background and Photographs!

Samuel Katz, an IDF veteran of Operation Oeace for Galilee, is also a veteran chronicler of the Israeli Defence Forces and an experienced terrorist profiler. His sabra (native-born Israeli) wife helps give him an edge over non-Hebrew-speaking IDF researchers.Israel's Air Force - The Power Series is a great book to gain information about the Hel Ha'Avir or the Israeli Air Force (IAF). The book is a great complement to other IAF book such as those by Lon Nordeen, Peter Mersky, Salvador Huertas, or others. What it offers that others don't is a chapter-by-chapter overview of the IAF that is easily accessible. Chapters cover such details and information as: A comprehesive introduction, a great IAF history up to 1991 including a rivetting story of the rescue of a downed flier in Lebanon, background on IAF pilots and training, IAF airbases, the helicopter forces (a relatively new branch of the IAF), the IAF Aeromedical Evacuation Units, the air defence forces, as well as a handy aircraft glossary.I highly recommend this book and its' companion: Israel's Army - Landpower #3005. They are the very best introductory and general volumes available on the IDF.