Jagdfliegerverbände 10/III
 

Gentlemen,

I almost don't dare to announce that as of today Vol. 10/III of our Jagdfliegerverbände series has appeared in print and is now available through the usual channels.

It has apparently and unfortunately become a rule rather than the exception that we hardly ever meet the planned date of release owing to a variable number of unforseen reasons - this time it was the bookbinder and his lack of capacity for this job who was the last on the line to turn a planned December release into a late April one. One of the collateral effects is that some information in the addenda and correction section that is included in our book and which was due to be out late last year has since appeared elsewhere (which makes it look now as though we had been copying from others which we haven't).

Anyway, I hope you will be satisfied with what you get. We still have some organizational problem with Vol. 10/IV - Service in the West, 1943 - as the material is way too much for one volume, the text lone being appr. 600 pages. So may be we will have to make this 10/IV and 10/V rather than decimating the existing manuscript ( and the photographical section). Let's wait and see how our publisher will digest this information.

The text for Vol. 11/I and II - Service in the Mediterrannean ToW, 1943 - is almost complete. With that in mind we can try to catch up a little with the release of the next volumes.

Regards

Jochen Prien

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Very nice to hear! I should look into that new book.

Another question slightly beyond the specific topic here: When will there be another volume on the Ostfront?

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I second that question, particularly for the very busy (and so far incompletely covered) 1944 year.

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Dear Jörg,
dear Denes,

The service in the East in 1943 will be the subject of Vol. 12, work on which has not yet begun, as I work my way through the series strictly following the basic pattern for every single year, which is Home / West - South - East.

Thus 1944 in the East will be covered by Vol. 15, Chapter XXIII. I have a distinct feeling that with regard to our current annual output and the as yet unknown and unforeseeable number of sub-volumes to be expected that this lies way ahead in the future. I hope that we will ever reach that point - and of course the end of this line - and that we will all still be around by that time.

Anyway, thanks for your interest and

kind regards

Jochen Prien

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Congratulations! That's excellent news.

No complaints here. Having read many authors' accounts on this forum about the issues involved in getting a single book published, I can't even imagine the difficulties associated with producing an encyclopedic, multi-volume work.

My vote is for no decimation. I'll make space on the shelf for as many volumes as you produce. Please press Struve to accommodate all of your material.

That's a given! Please keep up the fine work, and know that it's appreciated.

Regards,
Leon Venter

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Wonderful news Jochen

This means my German book package can finally get moving. I have given strict order they should wait for your book!!:)

Also it sounds like you need to borrow an afterburner from the present Luftwaffe and stop your regular work... (Just kidding)

Thanks again for all past good times reading your books and hopefully many more to come in the future.

Cheers
Stig

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Mr. Prien

Thanks for the wonderful hours of lecture you provide us! Volume 10/III is scheduled to arrive... on my birthday. You can imagine that it is a very pleasant gift!

Very best regards,

Philippe

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I know that II/JG51 and III/JG54 are in this volume but what other units are listed. Still waiting to see the price as it hasn't showed up yet on the sites I've checked. I'm also waiting for the eastern front for 1943.

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Dear Nokose,

the units covered in Vol. 10/III are III./JG 11, 10./JG 11, Jasta Helgoland -11./JG 11, JG 25, I./JG 26, III./JG 26, I./JG 27, II./JG 27, JG 50, II./JG 51, II./JG 53, III./JG 54, Sturmstaffel 1, Stab/JG z.b.V. and Industrieschutzstaffeln, all operating over Germany, and I. and IV./JG 5 operating from Norway against the Western alliies. Then there are additions and corrections to Vol. 1 - 10/II and a fold out map of Germany and adjacent areas with the Luftwaffe grid-net.

As for the East look at my earlier post in response to Jörg and Denes' questions.

Regards

Jochen Prien

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Dear Mr. Prien

I just received Vol. 10 / III.
Congratulations for your wonderful book (as usual).

I have a question regarding your future publications:

I noticed that Wilde Saue Jagdgeschwader JG 300, JG 301, JG 302 are not included among the home defense units described in your book.
This is reasonable, being these night fighter units and the number of daylight fights in 1943 being negligible.
But in the early months of 1944 these units were involved more and more in daylight fights, until their conversion to this role in May.

Do you plan to describe the early 1944 daylight activity of these units in your next volumes?

Regarding Vol. 10 / IV (that I hope to read next summer), I agree with Leon Verter and I hope that the existing manuscript wont be decimated, even if this will cause the publication of two books instead of one only.



Thank you for your effort.

Best Regards

Marco

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Dear Marco,

yes, it is our intention to include the day fighter activities of JGs 300 etc in 1944 as they became regular day fighter units and were engaged in many of the air battles waged over Germany from then until the end of the war.

As for Vol. 10/IV and - hopefully - V: We're working on it and our hope is to bring throgh the whole lot, which would result in another two volumes, 10/IV and 10/V.

And many thanks for your kind words concerning 10/III. I'm happy to hear that you are satisfied with it.

Kind regards

Jochen Prien

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Herr Prien
Are you in a position yet to project print / release dates for 10/IV and 10/V.

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Dear Del,
gentlemen,

it is actually a little difficult to answer your question precisely right now. As I stated earlier, the manuscript for the remaing part of Vol. 10 has been completed for some time. Right now we are waiting for some late arrivals to the photographic section which make it impossible to finalize the lay-out before they have arrived as they will have to be inserted into the flow-text.

Moreover it has not been finally fixed whether we will actually break up the manuscript into Vol. 10/IV and V or will have to put / cram it all into one single volume, the decision depending largely on the publisher and his calculations for either solution. For the readers two volumes of say 350 pages each would definitely be more expensive than a single one which could be cut down to say between 600 and 650 pages by using a smaller pitch etc.. Like I said, we will have to wait for what struve druck will say.

Although they say "once bitten - twice shy" ( and we heve been bitten more than once in the past as far as publication dates are concerned ) I stick my neck out and say that we will be out with at least one volume before the end of the year. But please don't quote me on that.

As to the contents of the oncoming volume/s: As in 10/I there is a day by day account of the activities of the day fighter units over the West in 1943, then there are the usual chapters on organization, new a/c types, camouflage and markings etc. and in the second part the individual units are dealt with like in the previous volumes,i.e. with a short summary, followed by the tables listing the unit leaders, airfields used, claims, losses etc. The units dealt with are all of JG 2, I./JG 3, all of JG 26 ( as far as not covered in 10/I and III and including all parts temporarily re-designated, such as 10., 11. and 12./JG 54 ), I./JG 27, 4. and III./JG 54 and 1./SAGr. 128. There will also be a large fold out map with the Lw-grid net, both numerical and alphabetical.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Jochen Prien

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It is now three months since the latest update on this important work. What is the latest progress report?

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Dear Sylvester,

Vol. 10/IV will hopefully be out in January 2010 - take a look at my posting from November 25th, 2009, titled "Jagdfliegerverbände 10 / IV ".

Regards

Jochen Prien

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Dear Dr. Prien:

Thank you for the reply. The location of the announcement mislead me and somehow I missed your posting. I have all of your books and I make it a priority to read the latest volume when it arrives from Germany, even if I have to delay reading about the Waffen SS.

Are you related to Günther Prien, commander of U-47?

Sincerely yours,

Sylvester