Nick,
..would love to add something to this thread....but I guess I better not go over the top. Suffice it to say that I too reach for Caldwell & Prien when I'm in a mood for a quality
unit history ( not forgetting Goss, Vasco, Forsyth, Mombeek etc etc) .. I'm always dipping into these books..
Re JG300. Most positive assessments are based solely on Vol 1 so far ...it received some nice reviews, but Volume II - due some time - is even more exciting! Aside from the superb and very rare late war photos, the book is chock full of gripping personal accounts - the authors got out there and tracked their men down and got their stories and then wrote the history around them (Mombeek has a similar approach). I would humbly suggest that in both these areas and with this approach these works have the edge over Caldwell & Prien..of course as a body of work Prien is simply unsurpassed..(although I agree with JJ re the II./JG 3 book - heavy!)
BTW, the French editions of the JG300 books have sold over 4,000 copies between them so far and featured simultaneously in the Amazon.fr Top 50 ..not bad for a Luftwaffe book costing €70 ....there's more on the books and an interview with M. Lorant via the link if interested..
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