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Maybe also, one day someone with the interest and relevant skills will actually choose the development and production of the He 177 as the subject for their PhD thesis, and perhaps even take me up on the arrangement that I offered in the initial instance to Osprey.
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I say this to everyone … have you ever considered writing your own book? If you see problems in doing that, it is quite possible that others have the same reasons, but sometimes the only way to make progress is to jump in despite your reservations.
Then there was what you said about a PhD thesis. Coincidentally, I have just read a book based on such a thesis and was not impressed. The way in which a thesis must be presented needs (in my opinion) major adaptation to make a readable book. Also, the work in question was full of factual errors that would have been obvious to anyone with much of an interest in air warfare. I inferred that the author is a historian who had to find a thesis topic but lacked background knowledge of his chosen subject. He had the thesis format (acres of explanation about what he was about to tell you, multiple sources for every last statement) and no doubt he satisfied his supervisors whose specialist knowledge was apparently no greater than his own (did no one know the Me 410 was not jet-propelled?). Also the published sources he cited were almost exclusively academic works, with hardly any of the books that members of this forum are familiar with and which would have spared him a great many problems and errors. Involving someone with the slightest knowledge of German would have helped too.