Favorite Aircraft History Books?

[Christer Bergström]

an author is compiling a book which he intends to sell. Therefore they must review their market and provide what the buyers want.

Or rather, the publishers (who can't afford to publish books which don't generate money) select precisely those manuscripts which satisfy the demands on the market, and turn down manuscripts which don't fill those demands.

So please stop lashing out against authors. I'm sure every writer in this field of interest who is not a professional author (i.e. who doesn't write for his living) writes more or less what he likes himself. You can't blame a guy for writing in the style which he prefers - for that would be like saying that all music must be e.g. Wien classical music. I happen to like the blues, and if I was a musician, I would play the blues, and if a record company would have liked me to do a record, I would then have done a blues record. I couldn't switch to Wien classical music only because there are some people who think that all music just has to sound like that to be "real music".

You can write personal reviews - and even post them to this board - but you can never claim to have the right to judge which style a book under all circumstances shall be written in. If a book's title doesn't satisfy you because you feel that it promises a technical description of a depth which isn't there, please try to understand that it probably was not a deliberate deception by anyone; please keep in mind that different people read different things into a book title. For instance, I think Martin Pegg's Hs 129 book is one of the best WW II aviation books I have ever read; I don't share your view that it should have gone even deeper into technical matters. I would even go so far as to say that maybe someone wrote such a manuscript, and maybe it was turned down by some publisher because it was judged that there were too few people interested in such deep technical descriptions.

If a sufficient number of people demand a book with really deep technical descriptions which is written by a super engineer, then I'm sure it is only a matter of time before you will see a large number of such books getting published. But right now we have only the books which are believed to sell. If we had lived in a planned economy where sales figures were not decisive, the discussion in this thread would have made sense. But we all have to accept that we live in a market economy, and that sets the limits.