Just to add to what NickM said:
Lawrence's "Aces over Kursk" is extracted from his 1662-page tome, "Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka". (Just to be clear, it covers the aerial activity over both the Southern and Northern fronts of the Kursk salient.)
It's a very detailed, scholarly study with many tables, maps and some charts. It contains OOBs and extensive quantitative comparisons and analyses, incl. losses, claims, sortie counts, serviceability rates, times & altitudes of Luftwaffe claims, top ace listings for the battle, and several other statistics.
The narrative includes accounts of individual aces, a day-by-day chronicle of the battle's development, weather reports, and even sunrise-sunset times. It's the definitive study of the air war over Kursk, along with Christer Bergström's
"Black Cross Red Star Vol. 5".
However, if you're primarily interested in photographic coverage and aircraft profiles, then I would recommend the following:
- The Bergström book mentioned above, 2020, 377 pages
Very good photographic content and several color profiles of Luftwaffe and Soviet aircraft.
- "Luftwaffe Colours: Jagdwaffe Vol. 4 Section 3" by Bergström and Pegg, 2004, 96 pages
Many photographs and profiles of Luftwaffe aircraft.
- "Авиация в Битве Над Орловско-Курской Дугой (Aviation in the Battle of the Orel-Kursk Bulge)" by Khazanov and Gorbach, 2004, 200 pages
Many photographs and several color profiles of Luftwaffe and Soviet aircraft.
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Originally Posted by Theo Boiten
A small question re this book; does it also cover the night airwar during the Battle of Kursk?
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Coverage of night operations is limited, but I did see at least a few mentions of Soviet and Luftwaffe night bomber raids and statistics.
Leon Venter