Dan's and Widewing's Reading Lists

[james]

"the few" is a book I just finished reading. Really good read.>

[Westy]

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[Rebel]

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[Charge]

So the top 10 consists solely of books about allied planes? Sounds like a true non-biased approach to subject. 

-C+
 

[Rebel]

So the top 10 consists solely of books about allied planes? Sounds like a true non-biased approach to subject. 

-C+
 

Okay- name me one book for axis aircraft that even approaches America's Hundred Thousand, or Bodie's Thunderbolt book. 

Just one. 

I'll make it easy on you- there aren't any- at least, none that I know of.  Data for axis fighters is generally much harder to get a hold of.  Indeed, the best resource we have for information on 109's and 190's is from the flights/fights that Hannah had.

Not biased at all, it's simply based on what is available.  You may have a ton of information (both bad and good i.e. Jane's and Bodie) for the allied fighters, but the axis fighters' data is plauged by rarity, and even then the majority of it all is anecdotal.   Russian a/c data is, shall we say.....skewed a bit.  But don't let Oleg hear that. 

Japanese fighters are generally well documented simply because that's the way the imperial war machine rolled.  That and we got a zero basically undamaged, tested the hell out of it, and made a plane to beat it- helloooo hellkitty!

[Puck]

So the top 10 consists solely of books about allied planes? Sounds like a true non-biased approach to subject. 

-C+
 

I have some pretty good books about Russian planes, but they're in Russian.  Hard to put them on a list for Anglisch speakers.

[Guppy35]

So the top 10 consists solely of books about allied planes? Sounds like a true non-biased approach to subject. 

-C+
 

Certainly there is a bias

You'll note that my list doesn't include USN stuff either.  Doesn't mean I don't have a bunch of stuff on the Luftwaffe, but my main interest has always been USAAF/RAF stuff. 

If I were to add a book to the list just to put a Luftwaffe book on it, it would probably be "Luftwaffe War Diaries" by Cajus Bekker.

[Barnes828]

Fly boys by Paul Bradley. (the author of Flags of our Fathers) I may have gotten the name wrong. But it's a good book. There was a really good AutoBiography on a P-39 pilot I read about a year and a half ago but I dont remember the name.

its James Bradley.

and his book Fly Boys is very good. i just read part of a book about the History of the Russian Air Force, and right now Duel of Eagles its about the authors experience in the Battle of Britain

[snowey]

i have a book that has most of the comon us planes and there structure and a few of the experimental planes to

[Yossarian]

Nyaaahh!!

I want to read ALL of these...
Problem is, I'm 16, have exams coming up, and no clue where to start 

Any hints?

<S>

Yossarian

[Gixer]

Book lists are always the usual American,Anglo,Axis lists. Shame there isn't more available from Soviet,Japanese,Italian etc.


<S>...-Gixer

[Cthulhu]

Somewhat surprised that noone has mentioned this one:

"The Warplanes of the Third Reich" William Green,  1970

IMO this is the definitive technical book on Luftwaffe aircraft. Seven-hundred 11" x 9" hardbound pages of Luft-Geek Nirvana. I bought it in 1973 for $25 and consider it the most valuable book in my collection.

[Saurdaukar]

Yea how about some good books on THe Dark Side. For the Luftweenie types as myself. Anything good out there?

"Horrido! Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe" -Trevor Constable
"Luftwaffe Fighter Aces" -Mike Spick
"JG26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe" -Donald Caldwell

[Hajo]

Have Bodies books on the 38 and the 47.  The 38 though is paperback.....couldn't find a hard copy.

Fire in the Sky by Eric Bergerud was suggested to me by Widewing....an excellent and informative read.

I ordered Fire in the Sky from Borders......I was lucky they had 2 copies.

[OOZ662]

If it hasn't been mentioned, there's a book simply called Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft wiht full color illustrations of every fighting plane from 1933 to 1945, including bombers, fighters, assault aircraft and many more (ISBN 88-8095-445-8) by Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi, and Pierluigi Pinto. You know it's Italian from the typo on the front.

Anyway, 414 pages of data, info, and mostly two-page profiles for each of 176 aircraft. I picked it up off Amazon for less than $5 because it had a small boxcutter wound in the jacket.