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4.0
Have read a lot of books on this subject down the years so I pinched this off Jim's shelf for a week... he wont miss it not sure he had even read it. His aunt buys him stuff but I think that sometimes she has only half heard his replies when asked what he wants for xmas. But then she is of the generation who likely suffered from the Luftwaffe's vicious aerial assault on our capital. Their side is fairly cursory in this book but then much else had to be squeezed in not least some pretty colour graphics a couple of which show the attacks with flight track of all units theirs and ours. Not sure how helpful these were to me though and it was as usual hard to get into the middle thanks to the perfect binding. Maybe it is better on the electronic version but another reviewer seems unhappy. What it needs is either ringbinding or an acrobat file but this is not the Osprey style as yet.
There were things here I found interesting and at times it got a bit bogged down in units doing this or doing that. The stuff about early warning and jamming was something I knew happened later in the war but not much about 1940. More of that would have been nice but it is about a "campaign" as per the series. At least you stand a chance with one that only lasted through summer of that year then petered out after failure and boredom set in... my guess has always been that the Luftwaffe was nearly worn out, Hitler had little else to do for the meanwhile having conquered the French in less time than he expected and had not really properly set up shop on the French coast. No, he had always wanted a holiday in Moscow which is a nice notion even now. Better to do that than have to attend some ceremonials down the Mall such a fan of Napoleon had he become by then perhaps. A bit on the warm side for him tho or so I read, then it got a bit chilly.
So here we are, a good contribution to this series with plenty to gawp at and indulge yourself for modelmaking or chatting down the pub but as befits the context it is a short book so better to wander about GoodReads for a heftier tome (no doubt with a heftier price "Adler" tag) to satiate the renewed interest such books in this series do for me. I like the look of the Rabaul one next... any chance Jim's Aunty?
There were things here I found interesting and at times it got a bit bogged down in units doing this or doing that. The stuff about early warning and jamming was something I knew happened later in the war but not much about 1940. More of that would have been nice but it is about a "campaign" as per the series. At least you stand a chance with one that only lasted through summer of that year then petered out after failure and boredom set in... my guess has always been that the Luftwaffe was nearly worn out, Hitler had little else to do for the meanwhile having conquered the French in less time than he expected and had not really properly set up shop on the French coast. No, he had always wanted a holiday in Moscow which is a nice notion even now. Better to do that than have to attend some ceremonials down the Mall such a fan of Napoleon had he become by then perhaps. A bit on the warm side for him tho or so I read, then it got a bit chilly.
So here we are, a good contribution to this series with plenty to gawp at and indulge yourself for modelmaking or chatting down the pub but as befits the context it is a short book so better to wander about GoodReads for a heftier tome (no doubt with a heftier price "Adler" tag) to satiate the renewed interest such books in this series do for me. I like the look of the Rabaul one next... any chance Jim's Aunty?