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I've been curious at who people believe is the most trusted author on military books? I've seen comments about Osprey Publishing is like Wiki but some authors appear to have done their research. So, while strolling through the book store/on-line, who would you comfortably buy a book written by?
Dr. Albert Price
Chris Shores
Uwe Feist
Eric Mombeek
Don Caldwell
Martin Caidin
John Weal
anybody else?
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Wasn't it found out that Martin Caidin took some liberties with the facts when he wrote his B-17 book?
“The entrance to the cockpit of this aircraft is most difficult. It should have been made impossible.” — Flight Journal magazine, April 2000, regards the XF10F-1, Grumman's first attempt at a swing wing fighter.
"Death doesn't ask..."
I would add Daniel Ford, he wrote Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 which ala Chris Shores put the AVG's kill rates at a more realistic number.
Martin Caidin sprinkled some fiction into many of his books, just to add some flavor to them.
Christer Bergstrom
Our very own John Vasco
Jochen Prien
Kurt Braatz
Dr Theo Boiten
etc.....
Maj. Dietrich Puttfarken II./KG 51
His close friend, Dr Alfred Price...Originally Posted by Njaco
I would add
Roger A Freeman
Jeff Ethell incl his collaborative works with Joe Christy
Francis K Mason
Graham White
J Richard Smith & Eddie J Creek in collaboration
Last edited by Colin1; 10-24-2010 at 04:44 PM.
I have couple of Vasco books on my wish list for this year....among others!
Jan "Felicis Tredecim"
"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
"When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"
and I was lookng right at his books on my shelves!!!!! dope that I am......His close friend, Dr Alfred Price...
Those listed aren't my favorites, just a short list of some of the well known authors.
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
For WWII I think David Glantz does a good job covering the most important European theater of operations.
For WWI Terence Zuber has no equal. His accounts of the fighting in Belgium during August 1914 rely mostly on historical Germany army documents and read like a military after action report. Some readability is lost to achieve this level of historical accuracy but to me that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
Steven Ambrose
Carlos D'Este
Rick Atkinson
These are three of my favorites, never heard them verified as to their accuracy, but I've really enjoyed everything I've read by them so far.
Pillage, then burn.
Argue not with dragons, for thou art crunchy and go well on toast.
As far as researchers go, Erich Brown and Bill Marshall go far and beyond the call to get the accuracy spot on...
Amen to that ! The Forked Tail Devil is a very good example of "creative licence"....
Chares
Real airplanes have round engines and two wings !
Nice Dan, very nice!
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Depends on what area of ww2 ur interested in.
Eastern front? Zetterling,Mawdsley,Ziemke,Hayward.
Pacific War? Toland ,Spector,Evans & Peattie,Parshall & Tully
Economics? Tooze,Harisson
etc,etc,etc
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