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Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen
Forgot to mention that shouldn't Classic (or other British publishers) perhaps consider co-operating with native German authors when doing books on German aircraft? After all, it would be quite perverse to have the best known Spitfire or Lancaster book to be written by German authors...
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I don't agree with this line of thinking at all. What matters is the end result, i.e. the book itself, not the Author's nationality, or citizenship.
For example, recently a monography of the German aircraft Henschel Hs 129 has been published by the German publisher Unitec Medienvertrieb, in their Flugzeug Profile series (No. 54), by German author Manfred Franzke, which turns out to be a disgrace.
The content "closely follows" (i.e., copied) my own book on the same aircraft type, the majority of the photos are the same (in several cases even the so-called Moiré lines that show due to poor quality scanning of printed photos are visible! The "author" even published my own detailed table on the overall Hs 129 production I worked on so hard for so long, without giving the source, of course. What a shame...