[Richard T. Eger]

Dear Ed,

Simply, the answer is no to each of your questions. It is not that type of a book. What it does tell us about, and here I am focusing specifically on chapter 3, is the organizational structures and their changes, the people involved, the political infighting, and some details of the problems associated with some of the aircraft programs.

As an example, Milch retained say-so on aircraft production until early 1944, but was fighting a losing battle because he simply was losing priority versus Speer's armaments ministry which handled allocations for the other services. Since he and Speer were friends, he went to Speer and suggested they work together. This was after "Big Week" in Feb. 1944, which helped turn Speer's attitude in favor of giving more support to aircraft production. They both agreed, but Speer fell ill for a couple of months. So, in Speer's place, Saur was appointed. Milch attended a few of the meetings thereafter, but he was rather rapidly eased out of power and Saur, with his Jägerstab, had control essentially all to himself. Saur was not a particularly pleasant man, but he did get results.

That's a sampling of the sort of detail in the book. Uziel does discuss some of the aircraft programs, but not in the sort of detail that you have asked about.

Regards,
Richard