'Mustang: The Untold Story' by Matthew Willis.
This book is all about the Allison engined Mustangs.
The back cover of the book states: " A unique and
highly illustrated portrait of one of the most famous US aircraft of World War II, featuring all new analysis and
rare images".
Whoever buys this book because of the images will be very disappointed.
One would buy this book for the text only, most of the images are useless.
The book is a hardcover with dust cover and has 288 numbered pages of 15 x 23.5 cm of ordinary slightly yellowish paper. The photos on these pages are of lousy or even terrible quality. On some photos one can hardly see that the plane is a Mustang. There are also 16 pages of glossy paper with a mix of decent b&w and colour photos, the latter mainly of survivors.
There is an appendix named "Mustang colours" which mentions types of paint used, but there are no colour profiles or any colour in it. There is no index in this book. TOC is attached below.
I wonder what went wrong here. Was there no editor involved?
Did nobody look at the proof prints before this book was produced in large numbers? Is it a POD or similar?
It's sad really, all that effort by the author and then this poor result due to other parties.