[Laurent Rizzotti]

For me the best original research work in these last years is the series Nachjagd Combat Archive by Theo Boiten, using a wide variety of sources to provide a very comprehensive presentation of the night battle over Europe, from global strategic and technological layers to first-person views.

Chris' "Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers over Britain" is a solide second, especially as it covers for me every side of this air campaign, using sources from Luftwaffe, RAF... and the "ground", I mean the targets. In most WWII aviation books, this latter part is either missing or reduced to a minimum, and I think it is an issue. Most of the WWII missions were done to either hit a ground or naval target, or protect them, and so the results of these attacks should be taken in account to see the efficiency of the air actions, while in may case only the air kills are listed. I was for example very disappointed that in 2nd TAF series by Shores and co, really little was said about the main activity of 2nd TAF, ground attack.

I would also recommend a French bookwriter, Bertrand Baeza, for all his books and works on the Pacific War. He is using Japanese and US sources to provide both sides of the action, and is covering in daily format the campaigns I have not seen described in such details elsewhere, especially in the Batailles Aériennes magazine about the B-29 raids on Japan (8 volumes) or the Mariana campaign (7 volumes).