Book of the Month

摘要

If we had a "Book of the Year", this would probably qualify. Here we have a truly monumental work; or the first part of it, at least. The author has undertaken the enormous task of recording the complete histories of every aeroplane designed and built in Australia from the earliest times to the 1980s, and this massive two-book volume in its smart blue slip case, taking the subject up to 1939, is just the first of four planned volumes.