New book on Hungarian Me 210 (and much more)

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

Hi
A year or more ago you have had in your plan to edit a book in English about Slovak-Hungarian air war in III 1939. I wonder what about this project?
The title is delated from MMP plans?
Can you tell more about this case?

Regards,
Mirek Wawrzyński

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Gentlemen,

The book is available now. If you are interested in to obtain a copy sooner, than via distributors (and for more reasonable price) drop me a message (no PM please)
Here is a reserve e-mail address of mine (half dead by massive spam already, but I am still checking it regularly):
aruns@freemail.hu

Mirek,

that's a long story. The publisher promised the release of that material "for sure" already in 2006.
I hope, it will be available in 2009.

[Håkan]

Hello everybody,

I’ve just spent part of my Christmas leave to read Csaba Becze’s ‘Az Arany Sas Nyomában’ and can highly recommend it for anyone interested in Hungarian aviation and/or the Me 210.
As Csaba has pointed out in his description of the book, it’s actually two in one.
The first one is about Gyula Szilja Varga and his way to become a pilot and his way to become a part of 102/2. Fast Bomber Squadron and the second part conclude the story of this unit after that Varga had left it. The book is written in Hungarian (a language almost impossible, at least for a Swede, to decipher) but all pictures are with Hungarian/English captions. There is also a 20-pages English summary with additional appendices with the most notable fast bomber pilots, commanders, roster, victories, losses etc.

Highly recommended about a subject not widely available in English!!

Best wishes/Håkan

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Hakan,

Thank you for your kind words.

As for the book: it was not emphasized sufficuently in the caption - the bottom photo on page 148 shows a liaison plane, a Weihe (which most probably belonged to the 102/1. Fast Bomber Squadron).

Incidentally, this material was not available in Hungarian language as well. I write about unpublished topics after extensive research.