Favorite Aircraft History Books?

[Jukka Juutinen]

Well, I agree on those two books by Warren Bodie. They are very good if one can get past his political views.

I disagree on Pegg. It was a reasonable effort that failed pretty hard on the technical aspects.

IMHO the capo di tutti capi in this contest is Edward Shacklady&Eric Morgan´s "Spitfire-The History".

Other excellent monographs:
-Bf 110/Me 210/Me 410 (Schiffer)
-Do 335 by Karl-heinz Regnat (Schiffer), excellent technical coverage and has excellent detail illustrations
-Tupolev SB by Mihail Maslov (Icarus Books)

What is interesting, and I have ranted on this before, that many ships have far better books written on them. E.g. the Anatomy of the Ship srs have extremely detailed design and technical coverage. It is also very odd that many WW One aircraft have much better books devoted to them than those of the WW Two. Where is e.g. a thorough (with performance curves, design analysis, handling info, pilot reports, material data etc) books on the Marauder, He 111, A-20 etc.?