Announcement for Volume 7 of A History of the Mediteranean Air War

[Edward]

A History of the Mediterranean Air War Series Volume Seven
Coming in 2026

"Volume Seven covers the strategic bombing offensive from 1 July 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945. It details the increasingly heavy USAAF daylight bombing attacks against targets in southern Germany and Austria, but also the final raids against Romanian oilfields until they fell to the advancing Soviets as the Eastern Front collapsed.

The harrowing story of the efforts to resupply the beleaguered Polish Home Army is described in full as well as continuing the story of the strategic bombing offensive. Despite many difficulties the Luftwaffe and its remaining Axis allies in Hungary and the fascist ANR in Italy fought with grim determination and courage. Losses to fighters and the highly effective flak were heavy. Later the might of heavy bomber force was also used for direct support to the Allied armies battling their way north in Italy.

As in previous volumes the authors offer a chronological narrative of this significant campaign against the industrial capacity of the Third Reich that is complimented with a matrix of claims and losses from all sides, all shown in minute and previously unpublished detail with stunning photographs.

Military Aviation Book Catalog (2025-2026) - Grub Street Publishing
https://issuu.com/grubstreetbooks/do...tary_catalogue

[Edward]

Originally Posted by Edward

A History of the Mediterranean Air War Series Volume Seven
Coming in 2026

"Volume Seven covers the strategic bombing offensive from 1 July 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945. It details the increasingly heavy USAAF daylight bombing attacks against targets in southern Germany and Austria, but also the final raids against Romanian oilfields until they fell to the advancing Soviets as the Eastern Front collapsed.

The harrowing story of the efforts to resupply the beleaguered Polish Home Army is described in full as well as continuing the story of the strategic bombing offensive. Despite many difficulties the Luftwaffe and its remaining Axis allies in Hungary and the fascist ANR in Italy fought with grim determination and courage. Losses to fighters and the highly effective flak were heavy. Later the might of heavy bomber force was also used for direct support to the Allied armies battling their way north in Italy.

As in previous volumes the authors offer a chronological narrative of this significant campaign against the industrial capacity of the Third Reich that is complimented with a matrix of claims and losses from all sides, all shown in minute and previously unpublished detail with stunning photographs.

Military Aviation Book Catalog (2025-2026) - Grub Street Publishing
https://issuu.com/grubstreetbooks/do...tary_catalogue

Unsure why a new thread on MAW Volume 7 was removed and consolidated with the old thread on volume 6. I would think think that the news of vol. 7 warrants its own separate thread.

[Tim O.]

This is a great series of books and I have drawn on them a lot for researching the men whose documents I hold. I was checking today and noticed one small error in Volume Six on page 167. The claim for a B-24 by Ofw. Martin Heinze on 23 February 1944 correctly shows him as flying with 6./ZG1 but records his aircraft as a Bf109G-6. This claim is recorded in Heinze's Flugbuch (which I have) and is remarkable for the fact that Heinze was the Bordfunker in a Bf110 (fuselage code 'D' piloted by Ofw. Alfred Gräb). Heinze records the shooting down of a Liberator with the twin MG81 machine-guns for his second claim of the war (the first was a Spitfire over Tunisia on 26 April 1943, which lines up well with British accounts). The confirmed destruction of a B-24 by a Bordfunker was surely something pretty unusual and deserves recording.

[Dénes Bernád]

Very interestnig information, Tim!

[Dénes Bernád]

I received vol. 6. Another great book, but not flawless (it cannot be, of course).