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Old 20th November 2008, 22:04
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Re: JG 52 histories

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Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen View Post
Why? I mean that it seems that no JG that served mostly on the Eastern Front has received a proper unit history in English.
I'd guess that it has something to do with the inaccessibility of Soviet sources during the Cold War and now perhaps because relatively few people in the West speak Russian or would know their way around the archives there.

I once saw a TV programme about Anthony Beevor and in every country he went he introduced the TV crew to his researcher in that country. I don't think most aviation authors have that luxury (maybe because they don't sell as many books as Beevor).
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