The Eagles Over Europe Project

[Aviart]

It appears that the messaging system on my account is not working.

Could any interested artists please contact us at the following email address:

artwork.ihra@gmail.com

[steve sheridan]

Hi Larry, its been quite a long time since we had an update on the EOE project.
Are you able to give any news?

Best regs,
Steve.

[Del Davis]

What is the current status of the project? I think it is time for an update. It would seem that we should start to see publications soon

[John Beaman]

Del I agree. Larry a lot of people on this board have helped you on this project with time and photos and information . I think you owe them and update.

[Nick Hector]

Originally Posted by John Beaman

Del I agree. Larry a lot of people on this board have helped you on this project with time and photos and information . I think you owe them and update.

Polite question, John, is he even still on here? His oldest post in this thread was some years ago...

[Dan History]

I will leave two links here which will be of interest to those who are following Eagles over Europe project and the other endeavours coordinated by Larry Hickey.

Four books of the Eagles over the Pacific series are listed as available and five as 'in production'.

https://irandpcorp.com/current-projects-2/

There is also a blog with relatively regular posts about the air war over the Pacific, presumably using material collected during the course of the Eagles over the Pacific project.

https://airwarworldwar2.wordpress.com/

Kind regards,

Dan

[rof120]

Let us face it (and be brave): it is very unlikely that we will ever hold one of these dozens of very exciting, fascinating volumes in the series "Eagles over Europe" (EOE) "in our greedy hands". One or two volumes at best: Polish Campaign 1939, if at all.

Quite obviously my friend, our friend Larry Hickey is very ill. Before he was he often posted several messages right here within one day - now nothing at all. He didn't need anybody else to write on his behalf (or not). I think he wrote several hundred emails to me before he was ill. Many of these were long or very long. We often discussed particular matters at length and in-depth.

Larry spent very large sums of his own personal money on this project, which is very commendable - his great efforts and his huge amount of work for many years, and his devotion too.

Possibly all these efforts and these large sums of money are not really lost for it is certainly possible to publish several volumes containing photographs with captions as well as color profiles and maps (I think at least part of them do exist by now). Larry also had many German texts including a very long one (written by Weiss?) on the 1940 French Campaign translated into English. A book or two containing these translations (and photographs) would most probably be a success.

Well Larry, if you can read this, your friends and your fans are not forgetting you and they'd like to know how you are.

[rof120]

A point I forgot to mention: Larry is one of the very few Americans who showed real interest in the European part of World War II. This is very commendable too (he showed he was a real historian who realized the enormous significance of this war in Europe). No other person, not even a German, French, British or other person, ever published, or attempted to publish, such a giant, comprehensive historical work on the air war in Europe from September 1939 through December 1940, or for any period of WW II. Jochen Prien's giant series on German fighter units is something entirely different - and very useful and interesting too.

Larry thought that his OEO volumes would not be profitable so he would lose money, probably a large sum. I disagreed and I still disagree. In my humble opinion there is a good market for such high-quality, very valuable historical works. I think it would at least break even but most probably be really profitable. Appropriate publicity could be necessary - and fully justified. For example I feel the volumes on the French Campaign (10 May-24 June 1940) would sell at least 5,000 copies, probably much more for precisely this period of the AIR war was, and still is, neglected or ignored by historians although it was at least as significant as the Battle of Britain, which happened to be the last 1940 air battle and thus was a decisive event. Larry was about to close this gap - much to many people's delight.

Crossing fingers for Larry.

[John Vasco]

The French (sic) campaign neglected or ignored by historians?

Have you not seen Peter Cornwell's work on that period?

[rof120]

Oh yes. It was released 2008, only 68 years after the fighting (almost all those who had been involved in it had died long ago). Not Peter Cornwell's fault - he did a very commendable job and his book is very good and very useful.

I think since 1940 about 37,000,000 books were published on the Battle of Britain, which admittedly is an important and interesting subject too, not to mention millions of books on other aerial campaigns.

Sorry John but I have an important business to attend in the next few days. Please don't wait for me to keep commenting on this.