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Re: The Big Show-Unabridged--Comments?
Well, since it is noted that the book was initially written based on Clostermann's journals, inaccuracies, such as a/c types, can easily crawl in because what he knew, and so what he wrote, was based on the quality of intelligence he had at the time. Remember the RAF shooting down all those He 112s during the Battle of Britain, or spotting 109s over the Far East in 1941? And, as for giving himself the benefit of the doubt in his writings -- gee, tell me someone who doesn't.
I also have enjoyed the book many times, my first one being a Penguin paperbook of 1958, simply a reprint of the 1951 version. More than any other aviation works I have read, Clostermann makes me feel like I am in the cockpit scared and sweating right along with him.
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