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Old 3rd June 2006, 00:56
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Re: Kagero books

Next one is Vol IV of JG 27 (1943-45)
Overall I prefer them to Osprey - the A-4 size of the monograph series works in their favour and the Luftwaffe titles utilise some interesting sources & photo collections (Barbas, Stipdonk, Crow to name a couple )- they do tend to regurgitate what has appeared before and if you have an extensive library (Prien etc) then they're not at all essential..a number of their works merely offer a slimmed down version of other hard-to-find works..Pegg (Hs 129), Jurleit (Me 262 units)- whether or not this is with the agreement of the original authors I have no idea..other titles - Me 410 combat history, JG 11, JG 52 (1939-1941), Bf 110, JG 301- are/were produced in collaboration with well-known authorities such as Petrick, Barbas, Reschke and/or offer English-language versions of rare German texts - ..overall I tend to think their publications are quite 'collectable' - super little titles for the modeller & ridiculously good vfm especially if you purchase directly from http://www.kagero.pl - on that front there's simply no 'western' publisher can compete with them. Having said that ..check out the rendition of Hajo Herrmann's wilde Sau Fw 190 in a recent Fw 190 monograph..it is spectacularly inaccurate and rather unfortunately coincided with the new pictures in the Lorant/Goyat JG 300 book..