Spitfires over Israel/the First Authoritative Account of Air Conflict During the Israeli War of Independence, 1948-49 by David Nicolle, Brian Cull and Shlomo Aloni (1994, Hardcover)

This book is excelent in many ways, first it was written by an Englishman , an Israeli, and a pro- arabic Englishman which give us an imparcial record of the war. The Arab forces were technically superior to the Israelis. It is an irony that the first figther the israelis bought was a very bad copy of the German Me-109, made in Czecoslovakia.But in the end the israelis prevailed and even shoot down six english airplanes. the book does not express any political opinion safe the facts themselves. I advice people interested in the Middle East conflit to read this book.