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Re: Books i would like to see
No disrespect James but I would rather not Osprey, or Mushroom for that matter as the small format is so annoying on so many different fronts.
I could think of a few aircraft with quite poor coverage, such as the Ar 96 one of the most produced German aircraft, Ar 66, Ar 68, DFS Gliders, He 51 virtually nothing, Do 22, Do 26, Fw 58, Fw 200 (still await the difinitive book) Go 145 (one of the most produced aircraft of all time), Go 242 and Go 244, He 45 and 46, He 59, Hs 123 (yes there are some books on this a/c but nothing definitive on this charismatic aircraft), Ju 86 again some books but no complete history, Ju 188 no in depth study, Si 204 some books but nothing 'meaty' on unit usuage.
Some of these are undoubtably 'obscure' aircraft in terms of combat but without whom the Luftwaffe would not have been able to operate. Of them all the He 51 seems to me to be the most obvious ommission book wise considering its role in the early Jagdwaffe, Spain and then in the Jagd Schulen.
Yet we have reams on the Me 163, Me 262, Do 335, Ta 152, He 219, Mistel and post-May 1945 'blue print' aircraft. All of which had very little impact on the course of the war, perhaps with the exception of the Me 262.
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