Customer Review: 'Bf-109 aces of the Russian Front' is a truly wonderful book! With 82 pages of wonderful drawings and photos and information. I especially loved it when I saw Erich Hartmann (with 352 kills) and Gerhard Barkhorn (301 kills) in the book. I thought the information on these aces was fantastic! The... more info
Customer Review: I read three books over Christmas break. They were Sniper on the Eastern Front by "Albrecht Wacker," 800 Days on the Eastern Front by Litvin, and A Writer at War by Vassily Grossman. A Writer at War was by far the BEST. Don't even bother with the other two. This book is boring and there was... more info
Customer Review: I can get enthusiastic about a lot of books, but this volume about the German ME-109 and FW-190 aces on the Russian Front is absolutely one of my favorite books. It is filled with outstanding and interesting photographs. The text is complete, engaging and extremely informative. And the icing on... more info
Customer Review: Using the Bf-109 against the Russians early in the war in the eastern front, pilots scored heavily. But when the Fw-190 came along then the scores really started to mount. The only real drawback to the Fw-190 was the horrible spin characteristic when turning too tightly and it's ability to 'glide... more info
Customer Review: Mr Buchner, a German veteran and a popular author in Europe, has constructed, mostly from primary and some secondary German sources, the summary of six engagements of the German Army on the Eastern Front in 1944. The battles chosen are of different scale, locations and notoriety but they all have... more info
Customer Review: Corti who was a twenty-one year old artillery officer on the Stalingrad front, was part of the Eighth Italian Army that was cut off when Zhukov sent in the pincers that surrounded the Sixth German Army. His group was in a pocket northeast of Stalingrad that was made up of Italian and German... more info
Customer Review: Those who are familiar with the Osprey monographs already know what to expect, a compact but detailed presentation of a subject. The book has a very good text, great pictures and useful color renderings of the subject matter.
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