[John Vasco]

Thanks, Siko, for your comment.

Look out later in the year when the second edition of 'Zerstörer' by myself and Peter Cornwell is published. The first edition was published in 1995 (the pre-internet days - do we remember them!), and this latest edition is an update and re-write, with 121,000 words and around 750 photos.


What I have posted here so far is not, I believe, all scepticism, but pointing out errors, for example about the first attack on the RDF (not radar) stations, and when Jabos were first used. I will admit that scepticism also rears its head in my post, given the claim that her book is a comprehensive history on everyday life and death for the entire Luftwaffe during its ten-month Luftschlacht um England. I don't believe that can ever be done. I think all that Chris Goss, Andy Saunders, Peter Cornwell, and others like myself can claim is that the research that is ultimately published in book form is simply the fruits of collected information, and cannot claim to be comprehensive, for the simple reason we never were able to contact all survivors of our chosen subject. And additionally, can never mine the stories of those who were killed in action. My Erprobungsgruppe 210 book, for example, is simply that - all that I have gathered, but certainly not a comprehensive, definite, account, and I would never claim that it is. That is the hard-nosed reality of research and writing.