"Zerstorer" Hardback by John Vasco and Peter Cornwell - Coming from Wingleader in 2025

[Edward]

News from Bill Stone at Stone & Stone Second World War Books

Wingleader will be publishing Zerstorer by John Vasco and Peter Cornwell in late September 2025.

Zerstörer: The Combat History of the Messerschmitt 110 in 1940
(Wingleader - September 2025)
by John J. Vasco and Peter D. Cornwell
304 pages w/ 500+ photographs - hardback
£55.00

Vasco & Cornwell's 1995 book.

Zerstorer: Messerschmitt 110 and Its Units in 1940
(JAC Publications, UK, 1995)
by John J. Vasco and Peter D. Cornwell
260 pages - hardback
"Covers the role of the Me 110 in Denmark and Norway, the channel battles and the Battle of Britain. Also includes details of types used and specifications."

[John Vasco]

Yes, it is a second edition of the 1995 book.

Updated and re-written, consisting of 304 pages (around 121,000 words) and over 500 photos, many previously unpublished.

Here's the publicity blurb from the publisher:

ZERSTÖRER
THE COMBAT HISTORY OF THE MESSERSCHMITT 110 IN 1940

In this 85th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain many books will have surfaced on the Battle. Some books, by their content, will merely scratch the surface of the subject, while others will simply regurgitate all that has gone before. Others still will make outrageous claims for their product while barely writing about the subject matter, and being mainly off topic and offering nothing to the core element of what happened in the skies of eastern and southern England in the summer of 1940.

However, this work, by two internationally renowned researchers and authors, John Vasco and Peter Cornwell, whose collective knowledge of events of 1940 surpasses anything that anyone else knows, draws on their decades of research into primary sources. From the Bundesarchivmilitärarchiv (BAMA) and the Deutschdienststelle (WASt.) in Germany, to the Public Record Office (now the National Archive), Imperial War Museum, RAE Farnborough, and MoD (Air Historical Branch) in England. From interviewing and corresponding with the relevant combatants on both sides over several decades, to the detailed discussions with those who have similarly conducted decades of research into the period, such as Chris Goss, Andy Saunders and Simon Parry. The internet also opened up new avenues of fresh information as well as bringing to the world at large many never-before seen photographs. It demolishes many myths, misconceptions, and downright incorrect information, on the Messerschmitt Bf 110 previously in print. This work of over 300 pages contains new information regarding events concerning the Bf 110 and its crews in 1940 in general, and the Battle of Britain in particular, and is supplemented by over 500 photographs, many previously unpublished.

This book is THE definitive work on the Bf 110 in 1940, and eclipses anything else that has gone before on the type in operations.

And here's the cover:

[Edward]

Thanks John and congratulations.

I look forward to getting a copy.

Sorry to jump the gun on this.

[Adriano Baumgartner]

John and Peter,

Congratulations! Wonderful cover...direct description of the work's subject on the back of the book (not like that so much discussed lady's BoB book tittle!).
On the wish list...

Adriano

[Nick Hector]

Rummages around for spare change...

[Chris Goss]

Especially if you bought my KG 40 book..............

[John Vasco]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Especially if you bought my KG 40 book..............

Hey Chris, get your own thread! (Joke, joke!) Damn! You've got one already!

[Edward]

I am certainly looking forward to this but wish the publisher would dial things down from '11', however accurate it may be.

"However, this work, by two internationally renowned researchers and authors, John Vasco and Peter Cornwell, whose collective knowledge of events of 1940 surpasses anything that anyone else knows, draws on their decades of research into primary sources."

[Chris Goss]

I think a point is being made and I will say no more than that!

[Nick Beale]

Yeah, but is it a ‘cornerstone of historiography’?