Nachtjagd War Diaries

[FalkeEins]

Took a trip up to the Aviation Bookshop to pick up the two volumes. Although quite familiar with some of the content (I translated about 65 pages worth of vets accounts including Peter Spoden's moving & eloquent Foreword - that's not all of them by any means!) I was still hugely impressed with the sheer size of the two tomes (total of 750+ pages!) & the evident deep research therein. If pushed I'd say the four or five different font sizes make some of the pages look a little untidy at first glance, but only in places (claims info, text, pic captions, personal account side bars) while I guess Vol II is a tad short on pics (a few too many generic images from ww2images.com) but very text heavy. These are really pretty minor league criticisms though. The list of sources, contributors, bibliography and explanation of methodology are eye-opening. Considering there is little or no info out there for 1945 Vol II especially is a superb achievement. Looking forward to hours of browsing ahead ! IMHO book(s) of the year !