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Old 6th November 2005, 20:15
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Re: New Stuka book

Jukka,
What you have highlighted in your first paragraph is that different works have different content, largely driven by the author's approach, and each work brings different things to different people. The many works on the Battle of Britain clearly show that. You can read ten books on the Battle of Britain and gain different information from each of them. If someone else had done a work on Erprobungsgruppe 210 instead of me, then the end result would undoubtedly have been different. I think this leads us on to your second paragraph. Aircraft enthusiasts are a real varied bunch. You will not get two who will agree 100% on any single subject. And that, I believe, is a good thing, as it stimulates debate and makes people think. We can at least agree that Martin Pegg's 129 book has made you think, and has stimulated debate among several contributors to this Forum. I think also that his 129 book has at least contributed something to our overall knowledge of the Luftwaffe in WW2 in some small way, even if that has not been to all people's satisfaction. I feel the same about several other books myself. But I appreciate that the author has brought something out that would otherwise not have been available. There is value in just doing that.
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