Forthcoming:Air Wars Over Kursk: Turning Point in the East

[mars]

Any one heard of this book and its author?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Air-Wars-Ove...71931&sr=1-353

[edwest]

Here are some additional details.

http://www.sampublications.com/frames/aw_in_f.htm




Usual disclaimer,
Ed

[mars]

Thanks, I will put this book into my list

[Evgeny Velichko]

Dmitriy Khazanov - take care on this author. We here, in Russia, wait nothing good from him.

[Dénes Bernád]

Can you elaborate this statement? Just curious...

[Evgeny Velichko]

Ask someone on "vif2ne" forum

[Jim Oxley]

It really is unfair to cast aspersions on an author (or anyone for that matter) and not qualify it with details.

[Jukka Juutinen]

How about those Russians who wait nothing good from Hazanov wrote their books in English to counter Hazanov´s writings...

[Peter D Evans]

Originally Posted by Evgeny Velichko

Ask someone on "vif2ne" forum

For those of us who aren't members of the forum you quote, would you be kind enough to provide a brief resume as to what these issues are? Forums like this thrive on the subjective and constructive opinions of its membership and I for one, as somebody looking to increase his knowledge of the Eastern Front airwar, would be interested to learn more...

Cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[Nokose]

I have several of Dmitriy Khazanov's books (in Russian) which has some good material on the fate of some German aircraft and information on some VVS losses. If your looking for someone to give an impartial narrative of the events he doesn't provide it. He co-authored a book in 2003 with Vitaliy Gorbach called "Aviatsiya V Bitve Nad Orlovcko-Kurskoy Dugoy" which has some great tables on the VVS losses (only partial). It was about the defensive period of Kursk. He sometimes provides information (stories) from the Soviet news releases at the time but doesn't follow up with what is known now on the same subject. I remember that he trashed Erich Hartmann's claims a few years back and Erik Mombeeck wrote a response. Khazanov's information on some of the claims that he presented didn't match some of Hartmann's claims (dates and locations). He lists some of Prien's books as his sources but only to prove his point for a Soviet pilot. I've found only one time that he's taken a real interest in a German pilot and that was Hans Strelow of JG51 in March 1942 (which was postive) for a few paragraphs. If there is something more that the Russian forum has it would be interesting to know.