This, the second part of "American Spitfire - Camouflage and Markings" briefly covers the Eagle Squadrons with their standard RAF camouflage and markings. It leads on to the 4th Fighter Group and then the 52nd Fighter Group which, like the 31st FG covered in Part 1, operated Spitfires in a variety of colour schemes over a two year period. While the Group initially retained RAF camouflage with added American National insignia, by the time they were in Italy a variety of low and high altitude schemes were in evidence. Add to this the Group's squadron badges and distinct style of marking a pilots name on an aircraft and you have some of the most varied Spitfire colour schemes of the Second World War. The 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, with its PRU Blue Spitfire PR Mk XIs and the 67th RG are then covered, with many previously unpublished photographs. Mention is also made of evaluation aircraft used by the US Navy and USAAF.

American Spitfires: Camouflage and Markings Pt. 2

History

Paul, Ludwig

Military

Ventura_Publications

The USAAF 52nd Fighter Group enjoyed an outstanding record in World War II, but to date its story has never been told. 
Activated in January 1941, it moved to England in July 1942 for an assignment with the Eighth Air Force. It flew combat missions in Spitfires to France during the summer of 1942 before being reassigned to the invasion force attacking North Africa in November 1942. After moving to North Africa, it was assigned to the Twelfth Air Force and was again equipped with Spitfires. As part of the Twelfth Air Force, it flew combat missions in the Tunisian campaign, and during the invasion of Sicily. In mid-1944, the 52nd was reassigned to the Fifteenth Air Force and converted to P-51 Mustangs. During the remainder of the war, it flew bomber escort and strafing missions to targets in Italy, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, and Yugoslavia. 
For its outstanding service the Group was twice awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation. During its long campaign, the Group destroyed more than 425 enemy aircraft in aerial combat and damaged 135 plus many more on the ground. The 52nd Fighter Group produced 21 Aces.

Spitfires and Yellow Tail Mustangs: The 52nd Fighter Group in World War Two

Tom Ivie

Hikoki Publications / Specialty Press

In this book, the author presents the first inventory of research done in Persian on Iranian languages and dialects (excluding Persian). Aside from linguistic works, it also includes publications in Iranian languages and dialects, i.e., local dialect poetry and folklore and publications on these. Since Iranian national dialectology has seen an enormous upsurge during the last two or three decades, and because publications from before 1980 are sufficiently known to international scholarship, this work concentrates on books and articles published after 1980 and contains approximately 3,600 titles. Most of these concern Iranian languages and dialects spoken in Iran, such as Taleshi, Gilaki, Semnani, Kurdish or Lori (altogether, 27 languages or dialect groups). Aside from this, local varieties of Persian, historical dialects such as that of the Fahlaviyyat poetry, and non-Iranian minority languages and dialects such as Azeri Turkic or Arabic are also covered. Iranian languages and dialects spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, or works published there, are also considered, but constitute only a small part of the publications. The volume aims to make accessible to international scholarship the diversity and richness of Persian publications on and in Iranian languages and dialects. The arrangement of the 27 linguistic groups follows a combination of genetic and areal/regional features that is explained in the introduction. The publications relating to each of these groups are divided into generalities, phonology, morphology/syntax, lexicon, and literature, sometimes with additional subdivisions. Each title is translated, or its main contents are summarized. The systematic part of the bibliography is supplemented by an alphabetical inventory (according to the authors' names). The introduction also offers an account of Iranian dialectology, with its history and main concepts, and is followed by an overview of recent non-Persian scholarship on Iranian languages and dialects. The volume concludes with an index of all names of places, tribes, and languages that occur in it.The work presented here is the first of its kind and breaks new ground in Iranian dialectology and bibliography. It aims to provide a reference work for all disciplines that are interested in the languages spoken in Iran: Iranian, Turkic, Semitic and Kurdish studies. The comprehensive coverage of literature in minority languages and dialects also has the potential to provide new impulses to literary and folklore studies in these disciplines.

An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects: Based on Persian Publications Since Ca. 1980

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Reichert Verlag

Reise Know-How Reiseführer Iran

Travel

Niemann, Hartmut

Reise Know-How Rump GmbH

Reise Know-How Sprachführer Kurdisch - Wort für Wort

This book describes an endangered variety of Gorani spoken by an Ahl-i Haqq (Yaresan) community in a village of western Iran, Kermanshah province. It contains a grammatical sketch, transcribed and analysed texts that were recorded in the village, and a lexicon with all words occurring in the text. The book is accompanied by an audio CD with the recordings of all texts.

The Gorani language of Gawraju (Gawrajuyi), a village of West Iran: Texts, grammar, and lexicon (Beitrage zur Iranistik) (English and German Edition)

Bailey, Denise

Haig, Geoffrey

Mahmudweyssi, Parwin

Middle East

English Summary: Covering approximately 500 pages, containing 35 contributions by 34 authors, the "Handbuch der Iranistik" (Handbook of Iranian Studies) provides insights into all sub-sections of Iranian Studies under the following categories: history, the present day, law, religion, language, literature, manuscriptology, arts/archeology. Each section is divided into several sub-sections which are mostly arranged in chronological order. The aim of each individual contribution is to provide a concise overview of currently relevant research in the respective field or discipline. Special emphasis is placed on considering methodological issues. The handbook summarizes the current status and trends in Iranian Studies and introduces the field's most significant disciplines and topics. As such, it refers to Iranian Studies as a diverse, inclusive, yet always philologically and empirically grounded area of research, which also takes into account related subjects such as Islamic Studies, Ancient History, Religious Studies, Ethnology, Geography, etc. The handbook is therefore beneficial not only to scholars of Iranian and Eastern Studies, but also to those in other disciplines. German Description: Das "Handbuch der Iranistik" vermittelt auf ca. 500 Seiten, mit 35 Beitragen von 34 Autoren, einen Einblick in alle Teilgebiete der Iranistik und umfasst folgende Abschnitte: Geschichte - Gegenwart - Recht - Religion - Sprache - Literatur - Manuskriptkunde - Kunst/Archaologie. Jeder Abschnitt ist in mehrere zumeist chronologisch angeordnete Beitrage unterteilt. Ziel jedes Einzelbeitrags ist es, einen kompakten Uberblick uber die in dem jeweiligen Gebiet bzw. der jeweiligen Disziplin derzeit diskutierten aktuellen Forschungsfragen zu liefern. Dabei wird besonderer Wert auf die Berucksichtigung methodischer Fragen gelegt. Der Abschnitt "Sprache" enthalt funf Beitrage (Altiranisch, Mitteliranisch, Neupersisch, Neuwest- und Neuost-iranisch). Das "Handbuch der Iranistik" (HdI) fasst den aktuellen Stand und Tendenzen der iranistischen Forschung zusammen und stellt deren wichtigste Disziplinen und Themenbereiche umfassend dar. Dabei orientiert sich das HdI an einer breit aufgestellten, integrativen, jedoch immer philologisch und empirisch fundierten Iranistik, die auch Nachbarfacher wie Islamwissenschaft, (Alte) Geschichte, Religionswissenschaft, Ethnologie, Geographie etc. mit einschliesst. Die philologische Kompetenz ermoglicht den direkten Zugang zu Originalquellen, somit zur Innen- und Eigensicht iranischer Kultur(en) und - nicht zu vergessen - auch zur aktuellen einheimischen Forschung in iranischsprachigen Landern. Ein wirkliches Verstandnis der Gegenwart iranischsprachiger Lander und Gesellschaften ist nur auf Basis des Verstandnisses ihrer Geschichte und Kultur moglich. Zu einem solchen Verstandnis kann nicht eine wissenschaftliche Disziplin allein fuhren, sondern nur eine je nach Fragestellung flexible Mischung verschiedener disziplinarer Ansatze, die sich ihrem Gegenstand gleichzeitig mit Empathie und Distanz nahert und eine dialektische Balance zwischen Empirie und Theoriebildung anstrebt. Daher gliedert sich der Aufbau des Bandes in acht Abschnitte (Geschichte, Gegenwart, Recht, Religion, Sprache, Literatur, Manuskriptologie sowie Kunst und Architektur). Dabei folgt die Gestaltung der einzelnen Beitrage grundlegenden, zum Thema hinfuhrenden und methodischen Uberlegungen. Das HdI richtet sich damit nicht nur an Iranisten und Orientalisten, sondern auch alle interessierten Kreise.

Handbuch der Iranistik (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Early Judaeo-Persian (EJP) is the form of Persian that was spoken by Jews, and written in Hebrew script, in ca. the 8th-12th centuries C.E. Most EJP manuscripts have been found in the Cairo Geniza from the late 19th century onwards. Since the dialectal basis of EJP is different from the Early New Persian (written in Arabic script) that was spoken in north-east Iran at the same time, the study of EJP is essential for an understanding of the development of New Persian. So far, only isolated grammatical features of EJP have been studied. The present work is the first attempt at a comprehensive description of EJP grammar in its own right, based on the study of the most important EJP texts, published and unpublished.

A Grammar of Early Judaeo-Persian

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