Bf 109 in Polish Campaign 1939

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Originally Posted by Larry Hickey

Hello,

There is a massive study of the Polish Campaign air war that will be published in English next year that covers both sides in definitive detail. We probably will have to break it down into several parts. Our Polish AF historical research for the project is now finished and currently runs over 1250 typewritten pages. The volume(s) will cover the entire action almost hour by hour from every known source. Polish and German records have been very carefully matched against each other to avoid previously published exaggerations and errors. We are well aware of the propaganda and myths created by both sides around this air campaign and we have made every effort to avoid these. It glorifies the exploits of neither side, but tries to present the story in interesting, but carefully researched and unbiased history. As one of our sources on the German side, we've done a full translation into English of the excellent books and articles in Polish by Marius Emmerling. However, besides his works, we've used as sources every known KTB, FB, contemporary publication, memoir, etc. all translated into English and carefully matched against other records of both sides to eliminate errors, misinformation or propaganda. This also includes the results of all known postwar aircraft crash archaeology. This will cover all elements of the air war, which, besides bombers, fighter and ground attack units, includes information from all known sources on recon, transports and seaplanes, which have not been previously covered in the literature in any detail.

I don't know if there will be a market for a detailed history of this kind, but it will cover the Polish Campaign air war in definitive detail, illustrated by many, many maps, hundreds of aircraft color profiles, many hundreds of photos, etc. This will be the template publication (s) for following books on the Phoney War/Sitzkrieg/Scandinavian Campaign, several volumes on the WC/FC, and three volumes planned to cover the Battle of Britain/early Blitz to the end of 1940. I may go broke doing this if nobody buys the resulting publications, but at least the Polish Campaign will be done and in-print in a language that is accessible to almost every educated person anywhere in the world.

Larry - do you have any estimate of the price per volume?