Forthcoming book on JG 5 ace Walter Schuck

[Christer Bergström]

On the BC/RS website, you can find this:

"Volume 3 of Black Cross/Red Star has been written by Christer Bergström, with important contributions by Andrey Mikhailov, Andrey Dikov, Vlad Antipov, and Claes Sundin."

http://www.bergstrombooks.elknet.pl/bc-rs/vol3.htm

Andrey, I have sent you an e-mail reply.

[Andrey Dikov]

>On the BC/RS website, you can find this:

>"Volume 3 of Black Cross/Red Star has been written by Christer >Bergström, with important contributions by Andrey Mikhailov, Andrey Dikov, >Vlad Antipov, and Claes Sundin."

Thank you for adding this words on your site, Christer!

I hope that Eagles will remember us as well.

However it would be great that this sentence would talk about us as co-authors, as we really were. Not just contributors, important or not.

>Andrey, I have sent you an e-mail reply.

Yes, thank you, I'll reply asap!

[Vlad Antipov]

Hello, Christer!

I’m glad to hear the news from you!
I was also confused that our team is not mentioned as a team of full rights authors, but as a raw contributors of BC3. I hope the Publisher will correct the situation and make up this gap.

I really think the volume will be great as far we work on it together for many years. The more so, the materials from a Russian point of view, including difficult of access Russian archive documents makes it really unique and balanced. This will be very interesting for readers as far as the attention to the Ost front air war grows. We were the BlackCross vs. Red Star team and are full rights members of the world historical community doesn’t matter we work in different projects now. The publisher shouldn’t forget it!

With a respect,

Vlad

[Franek Grabowski]

I think you may directly ask Judy or Jerry Crandall for comments.

[Andrey Dikov]

As far this question had risen on TOCH publicly, I should put dots i’s and cross t’s to avoid misunderstanding, ambiguities and any rumors.

We had an e-mail discussion between us (authors of BC 3) this week and Christer Bergstrom kindly assured us that gentleman’s agreement we had before (Russian co-authors had no signed agreement with publisher, but directly with Christer) is valid without any changes. We are all authors of BC3 (and BC4), of course, and we’ll be named and treated as equal-rights authors (not as contributors or second rate co-authors) including cover design. The gaps and misprints on Christer Bergstrom’s site and Eagle Editions’ site will be corrected as soon as possible.

It seems that all those errors and misunderstandings are inevitable in case of cooperation between several authors and publisher situated in several different countries and even continents.

Volume three should be really great and interesting, I hope it will be published really soon.

Special thanks, Christer, for your kind responsibility and to respectful community members for your attention!

[WEISNER]

Any new update for the release of the Walter Schuck book? has been some time since this topic was discussed/
Kevin

[Christer Bergström]

The manuscript has just been completed. The around 250 photos for the book (most of which have never previously been published) have just been selected. Claes Sundin is working on the aircraft colour profiles for the book.

One publisher has said that he aims at publishing it asap in 2006, but we haven't sent it to the publisher yet. We'll do so as soon as it is completed, which will be probably within the next few weeks.

We are looking at a large-size, richly illustrated book, of nearly the same size as the Graf & Grislawski book.

Before the Schuck book, my two JG 54 "Grünherz" pilot biographies on Hans-Ekkehard Bob and Max-Hellmuth Ostermann will be published. And "Black Cross/Red Star", vol. 3.