A new book in my library.

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Ditto. Mr. Wolf aggregated a bunch of material, but did not spend much effort separating the wheat from the chaff.
 

Morning bf109xxl

I dont have Vol 5 of the Red Star but comparing the thickness of other Red Star books to one I got yesterday there is quite a difference in thicknesses as seen in picture below.

 
Agree

Wolf series does have errors and if you have lots of access to TO manuals or other books on the subject then you probably wont learn much new. I find them useful as a quick reference guide if want to know something to look up quickly but they do have mistakes in them. His A-20 Havoc book I find really interesting as I dont have alot of books on that subject so pro's and con's on any book series.

Probably one of the best books on the B-25 is the book is B-25 Mitchell The Magnificent Medium by N.L Avery if you can find it cheap in my option but even that book finds me wanting more info. Why I had started the B-25 weapons thread.

All the best

Paul
 
Micdrow said:
I dont have Vol 5 of the Red Star
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A scanned version of this book is available in PDF if necessary.
Micdrow said:
but comparing the thickness of other Red Star books to one I got yesterday there is quite a difference in thicknesses as seen in picture below.
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Thank you very much, very illustrative! Now I am very curious what exactly was added to the new book - the old one was largely based on the book by A.T.Stepanets, who was a leading engineer at the Air Force Research Institute (NII VVS) during the war - he was directly involved in the testing and improvement of the Yak fighters.
 
Greg Boeser said:
Ditto. Mr. Wolf aggregated a bunch of material, but did not spend much effort separating the wheat from the chaff.
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I have always found errors in anything I read. Maybe not when I'm reading it but later when I delt with the subject for awhile or after reading more about the subject. I spent twenty years as an avionics specialist and had to "A" page Technical Orders (TO's). Changes and corrections on the aircraft and systems, most of which were older than or nearly as old as I was. So yeah. Issues may be found but I'm not likely to read it cover to cover unless I'm suffering from insomnia. I use it as a reference to get a better idea and if I don't think I have what I want, I look elsewhere. I already have his book on the B-32, and 26 as well as the A-20.
 
Some music to go with your reading:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7m-wMGDBc
 
I just purchased this book as a result of a friend sending me the attached promo pdf which includes the authors web site. The site links to Amazon but the retailer will not ship to Aus so I got a used one from bookfinder.com instead. I really enjoyed the attached chapter 1 despite its dramatic title. I expect the rest of the book to be just as interesting as chapter 1 is clearly well researched.



 

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We can't get everything from Amazon here (Ireland), but most things...some things don't get past the UK border. If you have trouble again like that again though mate, drop us a PM and I'll see if I can get it and send it on to you.
 
Thanks for the offer but I have family in the US and they can forward goodies to me.

The problem is all of them are slow forwarding so I went with the fastest option on this one. Last year I had to wait until Xmas when I visited some in Hawaii to pick up a book my daughter in Seattle had been promising to send since Easter. That turned out to be lucky as the cover was very fragile so may not have survived Ausposts "tender loving treatment".
 
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