Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by John Vasco

A review of 'Eagle Days' in the September issue of 'Britain at War' … Reviewed by Toby Clark. Words fail me …

'Taylor provides new sources and analysis. Writing in English about the German side is rare, besides the likes of James Corum and Robert Kershaw, there are few tomes … Luftwaffe surgeons asked for and received human test subjects drawn from camp inmates for experimentation.

Where do they find these people?

1. Robert Kershaw's a bloody good writer on German ground forces (cf. It Never Snows in September for starters) but what has he ever written about the Luftwaffe?
2. A character's discovery of Luftwaffe human experimentation was a major plot point in Len Deighton's novel Bomber, published a mere 55 years ago! That does not fit my definition of news.