When former RAF Tornado GR1 pilot and Hawk instructor Napier last penned a similar title for Osprey - large-format, hardback, 'lavishly illustrated! as the publicity blurb probably put it - the result, 2018's The Royal Air Force: A Centenary of Operations, was well worthwhile. Does In Cold War Skies match up? Again, it faces the same challenge: how to tackle an immense subject, in this case the evolution of air power within both NATO and the Warsaw Pact from 1949-89, in a single volume without skimming over events in insufficient detail. Many different aspects of this topic have, after all, been the subject of individual books, inevitably containing more depth than is possible here.
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