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Title: Carrier War: Aviation Art of World War II by Paul Stillwell ISBN: 1-58663-309-0 Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Good art, but the title's a bit misleading
Comment: Maybe it's just a quibble, but when I picked up this book (based solely on the title), I was expecting something fairly different from what I ended up with.

What I thought I'd get was a collection of World War Two-era paintings, with some informed comment about the scenes pictured. Instead, this book is essentially a history of carrier aviation and the naval war, one that happens to be illustrated primarily by paintings instead of photos. Indeed, the "aviation art" -- much of which is by contemporary artists -- takes a decided back seat to the history. The paintings are reproduced in large size and bright color, but receive scarce mention in the text. Information about the artists themselves is relegated to a few pages of small print in the back.

This isn't to take anything away from Paul Stillwell, who is a fine historian (in fact, one of the paintings reproduced in this book, R.G. Smith's "Air Raid, Pearl Harbor," was earlier used as cover art for Stillwell's book on the December 7 attack). And many of the paintings themselves are excellent. I just think it might have been more accurate to advertise this as an illustrated history of naval aviation in World War Two, rather than as, essentially, a collection of aviation art.

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