Steel Wings Over Cyprus, Levent Başara, 414 pages, Kronik Publications (KR455)

Contents

• 1 Steel Wings Over Cyprus, Levent Başara, 414 pages Book

Features

• Visual Memory: With a volume of 414 pages, it contains hundreds of rare photographs and digitally colored/enhanced images of the second phase of the operation.
• Focused on the Second Operation: It describes the air operations of the second phase, which started with the motto "Let Ayşe Go on Vacation", in details that have never been published anywhere before.
• Strategic Analysis: It examines the tactics applied by Turkish jets against the air defense capacity of the Greek Cypriot side and the Greek side from a technical perspective.
• Personal Stories: It combines the heroic stories of our martyred or veteran pilots with flight records and testimonies.
• Collection Value: It is a complete collection piece with its prestigious printing quality and expanded page count (414 pages).

Steel Wings Over Cyprus, written by Levent Başara, fills another gap in the military aviation literature. The work, published under the label Kronik Kitap, covers the air phase of the 1974 Second Peace Operation; It examines fleet-based operations, ammunition analysis and tactical results of the operation. This 414-page study, supported by a rich photographic archive, offers a unique visual and technical guide for aviation historians and modelers.