Eduard Doubek - Z deníku stíhače

About the title

The title joins the name Eduard Doubek with the subtitle From a Fighter Pilot's Diary. The word fighter points to the pilot of a fighter aircraft, and the diary form suggests how the material is presented: by days and by events, in the order they came, rather than as a systematic account of history. The title of the book is in Czech.

What a diary account brings

Memoirs and diaries show service from the point of view of one man. Alongside the combat episodes they tend to carry what does not fit into survey publications: the waiting at the airfield, the weather, the relations inside the unit and the everyday side of operations. Notes kept day by day also have a different color from recollections written down at a long remove: they tend to be more concrete in dates and in small details, but less systematic about the larger context. What a modeler looks for in such a book is not drawings but the context that gives a finished model its story; for building an individual machine it is worth pairing it with a monograph on the type.

Who it is for

The book suits readers interested in the fates of airmen, and modelers who want the human dimension of a subject as well. It also serves as a gift for anyone interested in the history of aviation.

• a book title, not a kit and not modeling material
• an account conceived as a diary
• the theme is the service of a fighter pilot
• the title of the book is in Czech
• reading on the subject, not reference with drawings

This is a publication. A model, a kit, decals and paints are not part of the delivery, unless stated otherwise.