Shlomo Aloni Author

Israeli author Shlomo Aloni is a life-long student of Middle East air warfare in general and of the Israeli Air Force in particular. He is the Israeli correspondent of the magazine 'Air Forces Monthly' (UK) and a regular contributor to journals such as 'Avion Revue' (Spain), 'Air Enthusiast,' 'Air International' and 'Scale Aviation Modelling' (UK). Together with Brian Cull and David Nicolle he was co-author of 'Spitfires over Israel' (Grub Street, 1993) and 'Wings over Suez' (Grub Street, 1996). Mark has illustrated several books in both the Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series. He has recently switched mediums from airbrush to Mac art, and has produced some of the best profiles Osprey has used to date in Combat Aircraft 18: 'B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eigth Air Force' (part 1) and Combat Aircraft 22: 'Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko Betty Units of World War 2'.