OSPREY "Aircraft of the Aces" series

[Flavio]

Hi all,

Do you know if this series is suspended (or closed) or new titles are planned in the next future?

Thanks,
Flavio

[bearoutwest]

Hi Flavio,

This is from the Osprey web-page:
https://ospreypublishing.com/store/m...r-3-months?p=1

Aircraft of the Aces 136 - Arado 196 due Feb 2021, and other titles on A-7 and B-66 to follow. Though with parts of the UK (and Europe) going into Covid19 Lockdown Mk.II, probably expect some further delays.


Regards,
...geoff

[laurent14]

This one is a combat aircraft series, not aces.

[Chris Goss]

That was what I thought-very few Ar 196 aces! No talk of Bf 109 Aces of 1940 going further than JG 53 even though it has sold well. They are being very cautious-wanted my Do 217 book by August 2020 but don't intend publishing it until Sep 2021

[FalkeEins]

FWIW I offered Tony Holmes a text on JG 77 aces a while ago -as one of the few remaining units that Osprey haven't covered I was hoping they might be interested but they weren't...at all. So perhaps interest in 109s is on the decline? Or perhaps people imagine everything has already been said (..and seen). As for my text, small chunks of it appear in my two recent Casemate 'Luftwaffe Aces' titles.

http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2020/0...77-battle.html

I've focused both of these - especially Vol II, 1943-45 - specifically on those units that Osprey hasn't really covered; JGs 4, 11, 77 and 300...

[Flavio]

Thank you everybody for your replies.

Flavio

[Frank Olynyk]

Osprey did a Volume One of A6M Zero aces 1940-43. So I assume that at one time they planed on a Volume Two to cover 1943-1945. I have no idea if that is actually in the pipeline.

Ones that I would also like to see, and I don't think have been covered (if they have, I will already have copies) are the Italian, Russian, Spanish Nationalist and Spanish Republican aces of the Spanish Civil War. They could do one on the Spanish aces on the Russian Front in WW2, but I already have books on them (although in Spanish) (and they are covered in the Prien JFV volumes on the Russian Front.

Enjoy!

Frank.

[bearoutwest]

Originally Posted by laurent14

This one is a combat aircraft series, not aces.

Oops! Quite right - it's the wrong series. Looks like Frank's tired-eyes syndrome is electronically contagious to me!

..."blind-as-a-bat with electronic jamming"

[Nick Beale]

Actually, it must be quite difficult for them to draw the line between series sometimes. Aces by aircraft type or pilot nationality are straightforward but when you have aces of a unit, are you "trespasssing" on the Aviation Elite Units series?

Note to Frank: they have done Spanish Republican Aces.

[Juha]

Hello Frank
Osprey has Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War (Nro 94), IMHO it is good and at least in reasonable degree compared the claims with the real results, it covers Italian and Spanish Nationalist aces.
Then there is Spanish Republican aces (Nro 106)
And Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces (Nro 95) covered the SCW with 17 pages