24th April 2009, 19:24
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Finland
Posts: 1,450
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Re: "Wing Leader" -Best written Book on WWII fighter combat
Hello Kaki
In my youth I also thought that the Wing Leader was the best WWII fighter combat book, but then I read the Finnish edition of Das Tagebuch Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert and thought that it might, just might, have been even better. Nowadays I would say that the 4 best are, not in any particular order, those two and Eino “Eikka” Luukkanen’s memoirs, translated as Luukkanen, Eino. Fighter Over Finland: the Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot. London: Macdonald & Company Ltd.., 1963. (Reprinted 1980 by Arno Press, NY as ISBN 0-405-12191-1. and in 1989 by Time-Life, NY as ISBN 0-80949-620-8.) and Neville Duke’s War Diaries.
Juha
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