The Illustrated History of Fighters by Bill Gunston

Hardcover 23x29 cm, 264 pages. 9780671056551 Includes airplanes developed by all the major and some minor nations: Netherlands, UK, US, USSR, Japan, France, Germany, Romania,, Italy, Australia, Canada. The book is organized approximately by date the fighter first flew. The book covers fighters that were actually used and placed into production. It doesn't include planes that only got to the prototype stage but never entered production. Each fighter is typically described with a page (sometimes two pages) of text and an accompanying photo. There is also sometimes an accompanying color rendering. There are tabulations of dimensions, performance characteristics, and usually the number produced. Finsbury books