Re: Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
I do agree with John Vasco and Edwest on this topic.
1-If you are selling fishes, do not send me pork! Am paying for fish and fish is what I want to see on the fridge. So, according to the resumés of John Vasco, there is nothing new (Historically speaking) on the book, it is pork, sold as fish, and with another kind of "modern food" presentation on the dish...signed by a PhD "expert".
2- If you choose a topic to write about, keep that on the telescopic sight....be a sniper and hit your target headshot and cleanly...do not start shooting like a Phalanx 20mm gun firing snipets everywhere and hitting nothing at all....What an interview from a LW bomber pilot remembering a raid from May 1941 to England (Blitz period) or 1944 off-topic do have to do with the Battle of Britain? In my opinion, she lost herself on her "Navigation"....and was totally off-track....sadly. It seems there is no connection between some chapters, sadly too...
3-That the RAF won the BoB, no one is questioning that...In my opinion, the cover is tendencious and disrespectful towards the German airmen, who , like the RAF airmen, were obeying orders from "the Powers that be" and doing their duty...and they fought well, so they deserve some kind of respect, even from the winners of the war.
4-Regarding the War Crimes...they existed and were registered on both sides...Americans shooting Me-262 pilots late in the war, Americans making no prisoners of war on D-Day; RAF airmen shooting down Red-Cross Heinkels He-59 and hitting French civilians in Harbours and nearby other military installations, etc...we can quote quite a number of cases...Russian revenge, etc....and, of course, German war crimes (in all branches). So, again, an off-course or topic deviation from the tittle of the book (what she is selling for the reader).
Thanks again for John Vasco, for giving us a glimpse of what is written (inside the cover) and how this book is written.
For me, this is surely a NO GO book, not even for the cover....will not even look at it on the "maché aux puces".
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