[Jukka Juutinen]

I had a chance to examine a copy earlier this week. Based on the quick examination, the following observations were made.

As is typical of recent Classic releases, physical and design quality is excellent, though the brief time did not allow for thoroughly checking out for typos.

The subtitle of the book does not really apply to the book's contents as the coverage is totally devoted to operational aspects. In short, the title should indeed be "He 111 - An Operational History".

The technical coverage is primarily through manual illustrations that are interspersed with the text throughout; a bit strange decision giving impression of a thorough technical coverage when there is not.

Performance details and analysis are lacking. There is a specification appendix at the end of the book, but the figures are the standard figures from Heinkel documentation. There are no test reports, no payload/range curves etc. But there is for an nth time a reproduction of Eric Brown's text.

The bibliography reveals a decent number of archival references, but mostly related to operational service, not technical documents etc.

There was meagre coverage of the testing and production aspects of the story. And there was no comparative analysis of the He 111 to its contemporaries.

So, as currently titled, the book does not deliver it*. As an operational chronicle, seems to be quite ok.

*There is more space devoted to the Spanish Civil War than on handling and performance of the aircraft.