If you want to know anything about Harvards, here's the book for you! This magnificent volume covers the use of the North American trainer in Canada starting with the fixed undercarriage Yale and ending with the Harvard Mark 4 in peace-time use. There are so many pictures it is hard to believe. The copy too is by no means short of comprehensive, covering all of the flying training airfields that the aircraft inhabited, aerobatic teams using Harvards, the modifications made for filming, naval use and of course the effect on flying training standards that the Harvard achieved during and after the war.
To make the book even more complete there is a list of all known Harvards and Yales used by the RCAF and their fates in the appendix and each mark has a set of five-view scale drawings for the modeller. There are plenty of colour pages though these are mostly of late and post-war aircraft and a number of side views in colour again for model making use.
Many pilots from all over the Allied world gained their wings on Harvards during the war followed by a new set of cadets from NATO countries afterwards. The book tells the story of these young men and some of the escapades they got up to. Low flying and aerobatics were forbidden at various stages in the course but this was not to say that they were not tried, sometimes with rather disastrous results.
This will probably become one of the standard works of reference on the Canadian Harvards and because the Yale has also been incorporated it is unique in its comprehensiveness and quality.