Besides being a good overview of the prop-driven fighter in Swedish service this book also features some of the best color art that I've ever seen; and that's saying a lot since this publisher is known for this. Perhaps the most interesting story related is that of how Stockholm scrambled to generate a fighter force once the machines ordered in the United States were not delivered. The gap being fulfilled by locally-built and Italian aircraft; the Reggiane Re.2000 being particularly notorious for dubious reliability. The irony here is that the Italian fighters were mostly replaced by P-51 Mustangs! Still, the Italian aircraft were probably not the worst aircraft operated by the Swedes; that honor would seem to go to the time-expired Mosquito night fighters that Sweden operated after the war. It's perhaps telling that the Swedes did not bother to preserve a Mosquito for their museum program. ( )