- In Brassey's Air Combat, noted aviation writers Walter J. Boyne and Philip Handleman have collected some of the best writing on the topic of air combat. This fascinating anthology contains first-person memoirs by aviation legends, hair-raising third-person accounts of heroic feats, and one compelling work of fiction by bestselling novelist Boyne.Philip Handleman concludes the book with an insightful chapter about the future of air warfare in the twenty-first century. Brassey's Air Combat Reader is the complete history of combat aviation distilles into one trilling volume.