i bought this book during a recent visit to London and will recommend it
In this highly illustrated work , Bill Rose has covered the history of the operational and experimental VTOL aircraft - while the familiar ones like the Harrier , Balzac and F-35 are included - obviously they are covered in more extensive detail in individual books -however this is the first to include details of the scrapped projects from west Germany ,US navy , Spain and France which make interesting reading. including proposals like the Bell D-188A, French Snecma C-450 and sand the Fokker D-24 concept. Also interesting are proposed submarine launched proposals.
Bill Rose has taken great pains to document what went wrong with some the projects - though the Russian story is a bit disappointing , it could have been covered in more detail as Yefim Gordon's excellent Yak Vtol fighters provides a good reference.
It also appears that the older Midland Counties publishing label is being replaced with the new Classic Publication brand with the same excellent glossy paper - but they seem to have done away with the dust jacket.
Cons - There is no bibliography or references and I feel one chapter on the evolution and design considerations for Vtol would have been very useful and is missing.- in conclusion this is a must buy although i expected this to be bulkier.