Recommend me a book about WWII airwar.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by 3Jane

'Eagles Wings' - Hajo Hermann.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajo_Herrmann

I was actually thinking of getting Kampfflieger zwischen Eismeer und Sahara at first, it's about Peter Wilhelm Stahl, a JU88 pilot, but as the Luftwaffe Fighter Aces concentrates in so many things, I decided to go with that.

[XabbaRus]

Midway Dauntless Victory, the one reviewed for subsim. I'm reading it and it is great.

[bert8for3]

Gordon Prange's At Dawn We Slept (Pearl Harbor) and Midway are also exellent. Long, detailed, but very readable style. On the Pacific War generally (to go slightly OT), Toland's The Rising Sun.

[Captain Vlad]

I have a good chunk of Time-Life's Epic of Flight and WWII collections. Very nice general history in those.

[Dowly]

Okie, the Mike Spick's 'Luftwaffe Fighter Aces' arrived today. Have only read 17 pages, but wow! How about changing the name to 'Luftwaffe Fighter Tactics', as there's quite abit of drawings of different maneuvers and a quick explanation when they were used etc.

[STEED]

Two splendid books I got as follow.

The Last Year of the Luftwaffe
May 1944 to May 1945
By Alfred Price

It's the best one of the Last year of books.


And this is a real great must have.

The Mighty Eighth
A History of the units, men and machines of the US 8th Air Force
By Roger A. Freemon

[tedhealy]

Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Sky-Air-S...6461722&sr=8-4

[Der Kolkrabe]

Some books in my home library

- Fork-Tailed Devil - The P-38 / Martin Caidin
- First Flight / Geoffrey Wellum
- Fighter Pilot / Paul Richey
- Fighter Pilot's Summer / Paul Richey with Norman Franks
- A Dance with Death - Soviet Airwomen in World War II / Anne Noggle
- Red Star Against The Swastika - The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front / Vasily B. Emelianenko (IL-2 Pilot)
- Fighter Boys - Patrik Bishop
- Thunderbolt! / Martin Caidin
- Samurai / Saburo Sakai
- Mein Kriegstagebuch / Hans-Ulrich Rudel
- Die grosse Jagd / Heinz Knoke
- The Blond Knight of Germany / Raymond F. Tolliver & Trevor J. Constable
- Ich war kein Jagdflieger-As / Anton Wöffen
- Das Tagebuch des Hauptmann Lipfert / Helmut Lipfert
- Night Witches / Bruce Myles
- Stormbird - Flying through fire as Luftwaffe ground attack pilot and Me 262 ace / Hermann Buchner

[trojer]

Martin Middlebrook has written extensively on allied raids into Germany ;
I recommend The Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission, The Nuremberg raid, The Battle of Hamburg all vivid and interesting.
Max Hastings's Bomber Command is also very excellent on the RAF campaign against Germany.

[daft]

I heartily recommend John B. Lundstroms two books The First Team and the sequel First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign. Both describe the naval fighter combat in the early part of the war and are expertly written and well researched. Two of the finest aviation history books I have ever read (and I've read quite a few).

[FIREWALL]

Have you read any of the American " SEE DICK " books ?


Example : See Dick Fly
See Jane Fly Better
See Dick Shoot Jane Down :p :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: