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The Turret Fighters: Defiant and Roc (Crowood Aviation Series) [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Alec Brew (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (31 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861264976
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861264978
  • Product Dimensions: 28.7 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 968,706 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The turret fighter was predicted by many before World War II to be the only effective way of dealing with the new threat of the heavy bomber. In the event, a two-man fighter with its armament concentrated in a power-operated turret did not turn out to be the answer. The Boulton Paul Defiant and the Blackburn Roc were only two examples of the concept to enter service and only the Defiant was able to claim any success in combat. From the archives of Boulton Paul Aircraft, the company which built every single Defiant and Roc, come a host of photographs and testaments to the Defiant from those who built them and those who flew them.


About the Author

Alec Brew has been writing on aviation history for over thirty years. Now a fulltime author with over twenty-five books to his credit, he is also the Archivist for the Boulton Paul Association which includes a photographic archive containing over 20,000 negatives.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good history of a rare subject, 6 Mar 2009
By Mr. Peter C. Smith (Bedford UK) - See all my reviews
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A little-discussed topic and one that needed a definitive examination, this is a very interesting and well-presented volume. The author has wide and enviable access to Boulton Paul archives, both photo and document, and has made excellent use of them. The main coverage is, of course, of the Defiant, but the Blackburn Roc is briefly described also, as is the American Black Widow (an almost exact replica of an earlier British BP aborted design) and similar aircraft, but most fascinating to this reviewer are the various designs that never came to fruition.

The principal criticism I have is that the author seemingly still accepts much of the wartime propaganda claims of highly inflated "kills" and MOI blurb, long since demonstrated to be largely inaccurate. There is no need for any book published in the 21st-century to repeat such obviously unrealistic claims as, to take just one example, that Defiants shot down 21 Ju87 Stukas in a single day over Dunkirk, when the true (and far, far smaller figures) have been well documentated from official Luftwaffe returns for decades. Also the flat statement that the Blackburn Roc never operated from a carrier deck is also total nonsense as, apart from trials at sea, several were embarked for a brief period during the Norwegian Campaign, and Petty Officer (A) W. J. Heard flew one from the carrier "Ark Royal" on combat patrol off Norway in April/May 1940.

Such points apart, the book is, generally, very well done and is recommended.

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