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Helion's first "Latin America @ War" installment certainly sets high standards for the publisher's promising series. And I breathlessly await further forays. Perhaps Overall and Hagedorn will return with, say, an equally authoritative "Caribbean Legion" account? Rabidly recommended! * Cybermodeler * This softback maintains [Helion's] high standard of the African titles and includes copious photographs. * The Aviation Historian Magazine * As well as the detailed information on the sequence of events, it is well illustrated with maps and archive photos that they have been able to assemble from a variety of sources...and it does make for some interesting reading about the Latin American region which we might otherwise have overlooked. * Military Model Scene * Overall and Hagedorn's expose won't embarrass anyone in the present administration as the perpetrators are all long gone; but it's difficult not to draw parallels with the US-led Iraq invasion post-9-11. * Books Monthly *

Mario Overall - Co-founder of the Latin American Aviation Historical Society, has studies of Systems Engineering at the Mariano Galvez University of Guatemala. He served in the Guatemalan Air Force as Computer Specialists and then in the same capacity with the Narcotics Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy to Guatemala. He has authored more than 15 articles related to the history of military aviation in Central America, which have been published in renowned magazines in the U.S., Spain, Brazil, Mexico, England, France and Poland. He also has collaborated with several authors in their research work about Latin American Aviation History. Dan Hagedorn - Curator and Director of Collections at The Museum of Flight at historic Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, is a graduate of Villa Maria College, the State University of New York, and the Command and General Staff College (U.S. Army, post-graduate). He was previously Adjunct Curator and Research Team Leader at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC for 19 years. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. Armed Forces for 27 years in leadership and intelligence positions worldwide and has, to date, authored 21 monographs or books detailing various aspects of aviation and aerospace history. In conjunction with the 150th Anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution, he was named an Unsung Hero of the Smithsonian Institution and was awarded the Orden Merito Santos-Dumont by the Brazilian Government for services to Latin American aviation history, in which he specializes.