PZL PWS-10 Book Review
By David L. Veres
| Date of Review | June 2024 | Title | PZL PWS-10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Andrzej Glass | Publisher | MMP Books |
| Published | 2024 | ISBN | 9788367227452 |
| Format | 26 pages, hardbound | MSRP (USD) | $11.99 |
Review
MMPBooks kick-starts its new “Rare Birds” series with a meaty little monograph on Poland’s PWS-10 interbellum parasol fighter.
Conceived as insurance against failure of the radical all-metal PZL gull-wing fighters then under development, the PWS-10 saw limited production and service as fighter-trainers.
The succinct, 26-page study begins with notes on design, armament, colors, markings, and Polish and Spanish Nationalist service. A photo section with 1:48- and 1:72-scale drawings follows. And four color pages – profile and plan views – neatly wrap things up.
Nice and simple. And entertaining and illuminating.
The new range packs plenty of potential, too. I’d love to see follow-up installments on, say, the PZL.50 Jastrzab and LWS-6 Zubr.
But MMP needn’t restrict subjects to purely Polish topics.
How about Argentina’s I Ae 33 Pulqui II, Belgium’s Renard R.36/37/38/40, Egypt’s Helwan Ha-300, Finland’s VL Myrsky II, Soviet Russia’s Lavochkin La-15, and Holland’s Koolhoven F.K.58 – the last operated by free Polish pilots during 1940’s Battle of France?
Recommended!
With thanks to MMP for the review copy.