Book opinion request - He 177

[Steffen Arndt]

Hello Jukka

I would not expect this book in English very soon....

Here are some more details:
pg. 6-310 text only
pg. 311-432 Appendices (no photos, different kind of grafics, charts, tables, sources... )

contents: 6 chapters devided into 29 sub-chapters. (Please forgive me that cannot translate all of them.)

I. Entscheidungsgrundlagen und politische Vorgaben
(decitional bases and political presettings)

II. Schwerpunktverschiebung und technische Rückschläge
(displacement of the focal point and technical set backs)

III: Die Ausweitung des Krieges und taktisch-technische Alternative
(The expansion of the war and tactical and technical alternatives)

IV.Einsatzbewährung für das Kampfflugzeug He 177
(deployment prove for the bomber He 177)

V. Technische Weiterentwicklungsmöglichkeiten und ihre Einstellung
(possibilities of further developement and their shut down)

VI. Bewertung der technischen, industriellen und politischen Führungstätigkeit
(Appraisal of the technical, industrial and political leadership activities)

(I deliberately wrote the German headlines, if someone has a better translation for them please contact me via PM or mail and I'll change them)

It is a rather academic work which is fine for me, but makes reading and translation quite difficult (the translator must have knowledge in historical, technical and political aspects) As it is a text book I do not think it would sell very well (even the German books are numbered -- I have 973) Maybe if people like Petrick, Crow or other picture collectors (this is not meant disrespectful!) would put in some of their collection it could be a best seller. OTOH it would be 600+ pages thick and thus the price would be astronomical .... or the text would suffer.

HTH

best wishes from Germany

Steffen