Many years ago an extremely thorough survey of WWII Luftwaffe was published, edited by Wm.Green. Some four years back a new version was announced as a three volume version under the Aircraft etc. Volume one appeared followed by total silence. The publisher, if they exist, are totally silent. Does anyone know the story? This publisher still has a web but it doesn’t seem to be active.
By: Graham Boak - 24th March 2013 at 19:04
I’d consider it worth £45, even allowing for its age. I’ve a feeling mine cost me £30 many years ago, which was equivalent to rather more now.
But in the end it is your decision.
By: Zidante - 24th March 2013 at 17:59
There’s one in vgc at £22.49 on Amazon – seems good value to me…….
But with only 28 pages missing from the original volume, bought for around the same price, unfortunately it makes the net spend quite prohibitive when there are other things demanding that money. 🙁
By: Graham Boak - 24th March 2013 at 12:22
It is indeed a splendid book, but now in need of fairly significant rewriting in several places. Green had approached this in a number of articles in Air International/Enthusiast, but ran out of time. One problem with the later attempt was that it largely reprinted the old text rather than attempting to update it, other than adding pretty colour profiles of debatable accuracy.
The rights are owned by Key Publishing, I believe, unless they have passed them on?
By: wilkofife - 24th March 2013 at 11:52
There’s one in vgc at £22.49 on Amazon – seems good value to me…….
By: Zidante - 24th March 2013 at 10:40
Volume III would have been nice as my copy of the original book ends abruptly at page 640 before the Me264 has finished. I can’t justify the cost of a whole new book to myself as they aren’t the cheapest on the second hand market.
The original really is a splendid work.
By: wilkofife - 21st March 2013 at 04:02
Like many others, I bought Vol 1 and am disappointed that it is likely to be the only one.
I have made several attempts to find out what the situation is – my last call. a few weeks ago, was to Crecy Publications, who had some involvement in the marketing of the book. They say they haven’t given up all hope yet.
I fear, however, that it is a victim of today’s economic climate – a £50-60 book to a niche market is always going to be a bit of a gamble, and they probably didn’t sell enough of the first volume to justify further publication costs. Shame – it was a fine effort.
Book sales in general are way down – very little seems to move on Ebay – especially not at the prices they were getting a few years ago.
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March 20, 2013 at 10:05 pm