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Originally Posted by Johannes
Hi Guys
Second edition is not on the cards, however a "Book 5" to the original series was planned at publication to cover corrections and additions. The corrections would be typo errors mainly, but also just plain mistakes, additions would be additional aces, but also additional information to those previously mentioned, this would be largely information gathered from flugbuchen covering the timeline outside the microfilm scope, and dates of Birth/death. However my co-author John Foreman has not been well for a few years. Whereas the concept of the book was my own, John is more literate, and would research the deaths of the pilots in combat, and often forward a name to the guy who nailed the ace. John is also much more informed about the Western front, and has published many books about this front, in fact he has little interest about the Eastern front, but has been to many Luftwaffe re-unions, and meet many Eastern-front aces, John still remains a great enthusiast.
As we say in the introduction in our "Book 1 A-E", our books only make sense if you ignore all that came before, basically John always said that anything published is regarded as "gospel", and is "cast in stone", i.e regarded as fact. The most accurate work I have encountered generally is Jochen Prien's later works, his earlier works had a lot of speculation i.e sometime times/dates were known, but not the claimant, Jochen did a good job of working-out who these claimants were, not is was not always accurate, however his later work does use the mikrofilms, however that for II./JG 2 in Africa is somehow corrupted(excel sort?), also Bernd Barbas's work on specifically JG 52 and Gerhard Barkhorn is almost faultless.
Basically we know more fact now than years ago.
I'll ask John if the "Book 5" is still on the cards.
Kind Regards
Johannes
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Hi Johannes,
Sorry to hear about your co-author. This series of books has been of great use to me and I have only ever noticed one major error within them - the entry on Karl-Heinz Nebel needs a little work, along with a friend of mine, we interviewed him in about 2003/2004 and he told us about the wound he suffered and so on.
I would really welcome a 5th volume of corrections and updates and would buy it as a matter of priority.
A small (...hopefully not silly...) question if I may:
I could not find Hans-Werner Renzow listed in the series, would volume 5 correct that or is there a good reason for his omission?
Regards
Nick