Das Jagdflugzeug Messerschmitt Bf 109. Technik / Eigenschaften / Leistung / Stückzahlen / Bewährung.

[edwest2]

Expected at the end of the month.

https://www.christian-schmidt.com/pr...tqst4ibde937p5

Usual disclaimer,
Ed

[Jukka Juutinen]

An English edition needed!

[schwarze-man]

With a price of about £100 inc post and tax, this could still be a good book. Despite the breadth of Bf 109 publications there is still room for more! If anyone gets a copy, I would appreciate a review please.

SM

[Kurfürst]

Originally Posted by schwarze-man

With a price of about £100 inc post and tax, this could still be a good book. Despite the breadth of Bf 109 publications there is still room for more! If anyone gets a copy, I would appreciate a review please.

SM

My brief review.

It is the best technical book on the 109. It's basically the 109 equivalent of Morgan and Shacklady's Spitfire book, except for the fancy photos and listing of individual serial numbers. Lots of very fresh, never published information, and very few 'holes' where the story is not complete.

The book is extremely cheap for a 100, it is self published, and essentially endless pages of pure, raw, boring information you mostly never seen before, with about 1/3 of each page with through references and quotes.

Paper quality is OK, as if you would print a book on a home printer on standard A4 pages, but its hard cover. Extra points for the two oldschool but very useful 'page markers' (small strips of cloth).

It's a no-nonsense, througly researched and referenced technical book down to the smallest development and issue-solving detail that may be of interest, with every single statement well researched, conclusions very conservatively made instead of being 'dreamed up'.

If you are interested in the smallest technical detail, and don't care about nice photos or unit histories, because it doesn't have any. Those are well covered by well known books. There is no real need for another one of those.

Get it while you still can.

[Milos Gazdic]

Did anyone get the book by now?

[richdlc]

looks fascinating...

does anyone know who the gentleman is, or have his contact details?

[FalkeEins]

...best 109 book currently out there is Peter Schmoll's " Me 109; Produktion und Einsatz "

http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2018/0...d-einsatz.html

[FrancisM]

In my opinion this is an excellent book and is the best current reference on the Bf 109. The book is very heavily footnoted, so that in 1032 pages there are 4850 footnotes. So many pages are a half page of text with the bottom half being footnotes. These are sometimes extensive as you might expect.
Primary sources are quoted thoughout, plus he has been through all the books available on the subject and these are often quoted and mistakes discussed and explained.
I haven't been through it all yet but what I've seen is remarkable. From his comments on my own work I have to admit several errors, small in nature. There are also points I disagree with.
As an idea of the intensity of his research, I believe he is the first author to deduce the exact number of Bf 109 Es produced. Many others give approximate numbers, even respected ones. Here are exact numbers although I can't guarantee there are none.
Who is he? A retired Rechtanwalt ie lawyer and you can deduce this from reading the introduction.
So I recommend this book unreservidly. It may well be overtaken on some points in the future and there is plenty of material for discussion.
Regards,
Francis

[richdlc]

Originally Posted by FrancisM

In my opinion this is an excellent book and is the best current reference on the Bf 109....
Who is he? A retired Rechtanwalt ie lawyer and you can deduce this from reading the introduction.

are his contact details in there?

[FrancisM]

Richard,
no contact details but if you search for Michael Baumgartl with Frankfurt you will come across his Kanzlei through which he can probably be contacted.


Regards,
Francis