Regular marked price: $44.95Discount Price: $29.67
Cost Savings: $15.28 (34%)Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.74630943
EAN num: 9781857800920
ISBN number: 1857800923
Label: Midland
Manufacturer: Midland
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: August 27, 2000
Publishing house: Midland
Sale Popularity Level: 428571
Studio: Midland
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
This eagerly awaited companion volume to the enormously popular volume on fighters looks at the might-have-been strategic German bombers. Filled with transatlantic jets and projects that were on the drawing board or in prototype form at the war's end. Full colour action illustrations in contemporary markings and performance data tables show vividly what might have been achieved had the war continued beyond 1945.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
This book is an incredible overview of the misguided genius behind the air arm Nazi war machine. The colour plates are beautifully rendered and well complimented by the plan views. Considering the way things ended it's amazing that any of this information survived. It's also quite interesting to see the roots of the American jet age in these designs.
Rated by buyers -
This book is exemplary in its illustrations, line drawings, and photos of the various production models, prototypes, and proposals for new bombers. The imagination and forward thinking of the German aircraft designers is just stunning, and lucky for us Der Fuhrer did not persue a long range strategic bomber program. So, aircraft buffs, modelmakers, you will drool over this book.
Guten Tag meine Herrs/Fraus
Rated by buyers -
It is well known that the Germans never fielded a heavy bomber to compete with the B-17, B-24, Lancaster, etc.
Less well known is the fact that the Germans spent quite a bit of time both before and during the war on developing large bombers. That they were not put into production was a matter of political and military decision making rather than any technical issues. Neither the Army nor Hitler expected a long war with the need to bomb the Russian factories beyond the Ural mountains or of course England. Planes like the Dornier Do 19, the Junkers Ju 89 and 290, and of course the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor were produced and flying before the war.
This book is mostly drawing of planes that never made it past the design phase. But in these drawings you can clearly see the equivalents of B-29's even the later B-36 (Except that it appears that almost everything the Germans did had two tail fins.). There are several flying wing designs that were being done just about the same time as the Northrup B-35 Flying Wing. The Messerschmitt ME P.08 was proposed in September of 1941, the Northrup contract was awarded in November 1941. Presumably the ME P.08 wouldn't have worked any better than the B-35 because the computer controls just weren't up to it in that time frame.
Of course the German Jet powered designs are very interesting as well. They had the jet engines in production and were beginning to think of the problems of layout and design for jet powered bombers. A gret fun look at what was never to be.
Rated by buyers -
I mostly disagree with "anhistorian" and his review of the book. The artwork in it, and it's two companion works, are top notch. I agree much of the text is simplified, but as a bonus that gives more room for line drawings, illustrations and photos. And I am not really interested in the authors political alignment, I am just reading his book. If you think he is being pro-German, well it appears to me that he IS German, and loves his country. Mr "anhistorian", if you are an American, don't you love your country? Nuff said. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in this unique subject. Great job!
Rated by buyers 
-
The paintings in this book, realizing in many cases designs that were never constructed, are very first rate. Unfortunately, the rest of the book is not to the same standard.
Data on the designs is sparse at best, and the information is far from complete. The entry on the Junkers Ju 390, for instance, even though it appears in the section "Target New York," neglects to mention the second prototype, which flew to within 12 miles of the American coast near New York (only the very first prototype is mentioned, and described as if there never was another -- an outright mistake). A vastly better entry on this plane appears in William Green's Warplanes of the Third Reich. Text entries in this book are consistently brief & lacking in detail; too often, they are oversimplified or inaccurate.
Likewise, the chapters on projects from 1944-5 contain a number of designs from the early 1940s, and even some from the 1930s. There seems no rhyme or reason to the organization (furthermore, some of the planes included are not strategic bombers at all, despite the supposed focus of the book). Another problem is that related series of aircraft designs are scattered, out of order, through different parts of the book, without reference to chronology, technological development, or any other logical consideration.
The author's pro-Nazi sympathies are also too much in evidence; he served in the Luftwaffe's design bureau during the war, and his regret that Germany lost the war is repeatedly expressed. He is actually quite strident in calling it a tragedy that New York was not bombed. He blames rigid bureaucrats at the top of the Nazi government for stopping designs which he clearly feels might have turned the war in Germany's favor, something he sorely wishes had happened. Given the horror that Germany unleashed on Europe and the world in the 1940s, I find it hard to read such dubious nostalgia.
The one plus point of this book is the illustrations. The paintings are first-rate, showing all of the various designs in splendidly realized detail. Unfortunately, it's hard to appreciate the illustrations, since the book gives no clear sense of the development of the aircraft they depict.
In short, if you are a modelmaker, you may well find this book very helpful. If you are interested in the remarkable technological leaps carried out by the German aircraft industry during the war, this book will not teach you much. For all the designs that were actually flown, Green's book, mentioned above, is vastly superior to this. For the planes only designed, this book is still the only game in town -- but poor information is not much better than none. I returned this book.
Find other books like this one:
