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    Yes, I own that book and have read much of it. It is 550 pages of day by day recount of practically every mission flown by either side during the period covered. Who flew what when and where. Who shot what and hit what/whom. Who crashed where and died or survived by walking out from where and meeting up with who. Pilot journals. The works. There is no other source that can touch this series. Christopher Shores' other books also covers all of the other related campaigns throughout the Mediterranean. It is a historical mission builders dream. I can literally recreate the North African campaigns in excruciating detail. And the detail in the book is excruciating as well. The books are reference sources not for light to medium reading. Super dry stuff. But is not really and overview of the campaign itself. This book is a tree where you can peek inside and count the rings, of every tree in the forest.

    If you want to check the books out before you dive in I recommend you get an Everand subscription (nee Scribd). My $12/month subscription gives me "free" online access to the entire series of five volumes. If you have never use Everand/Scribd then I highly recommend you try that first. There are thousands of obscure books available just on WW2. Once I read enough of a book to know I want a hard copy, I order it then. Alternatively the book is $18 on Kindle.

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    I have the first 3 of the volumes (hopefully the fourth for xmas). Mine though are all on kindle, for the simple reason that the text is too small for me to read nowadays (almot any book now) without a magnifying glass. This kindle makes a lot of the maps/pictures indistinct but other than that they are a very good source of material. I would agree with everythng ATAG_Lenny writes about them (and for the purpose of mission/campaign writing. But if you can get them as a book and have the space buy the books rather than kindle

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    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Lenny View Post
    Yes, I own that book and have read much of it. It is 550 pages of day by day recount of practically every mission flown by either side during the period covered. Who flew what when and where. Who shot what and hit what/whom. Who crashed where and died or survived by walking out from where and meeting up with who. Pilot journals. The works. There is no other source that can touch this series. Christopher Shores' other books also covers all of the other related campaigns throughout the Mediterranean. It is a historical mission builders dream. I can literally recreate the North African campaigns in excruciating detail. And the detail in the book is excruciating as well. The books are reference sources not for light to medium reading. Super dry stuff. But is not really and overview of the campaign itself. This book is a tree where you can peek inside and count the rings, of every tree in the forest.

    If you want to check the books out before you dive in I recommend you get an Everand subscription (nee Scribd). My $12/month subscription gives me "free" online access to the entire series of five volumes. If you have never use Everand/Scribd then I highly recommend you try that first. There are thousands of obscure books available just on WW2. Once I read enough of a book to know I want a hard copy, I order it then. Alternatively the book is $18 on Kindle.

    https://www.everand.com/what-is-everand

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    Thanks very much for the info Lenny. They sound great.

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    Thank you for sharing,
    I'm going to try on Everand as Atag Lenny suggested, I would like to one day create a multiplayer campaign in the North African desert!!!
    Do you think there is the same type of book on the Battle of Britain?

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    I would like to get the whole lot of them actually lol. One at a time

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    Quote Originally Posted by OBT~Polak View Post
    Thank you for sharing,
    I'm going to try on Everand as Atag Lenny suggested, I would like to one day create a multiplayer campaign in the North African desert!!!
    Do you think there is the same type of book on the Battle of Britain?
    Yep. Check this out. I have bought all volumes of this series as it is only in print form. Extraordinary, and again the basis for a day by day, mission by mission campaign.

    https://wingleader.co.uk/shop/?jsf=w...ts-taxonomy:76

    Also at the same website they publish a series of books on the post Battle of Britain Lean Forward campaigns of 1941 and 1942 here:

    https://wingleader.co.uk/shop/?jsf=w...s-taxonomy:461

    If you want detail on the Bomber Command actions during the Battle of Britain I would highly recommend "The Other Few" by Larry Donnelly. I first saw it on Scribd but its now gone. I expect it will come back at some point.

    Battle of France definitive book to me is "The Battle of France Then and Now" by Peter Cornwell. Much like Christopher Shores books.

    Lastly once Dieppe: Fortress' and Focke-Wulf's is released the Chris Goss Book "Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers Over Britain: The Tip and Run Campaign 1942-1943" will likely be a great resource.

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    Re: Has anyone come across these books

    "Thus a full coverage of all aspects of aerial operations throughout the whole of the Mediterranean area" I sure hope he means Luftwaffe too.


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    I guess it's Allied only. Had a look at some pages ..really something

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    Quote Originally Posted by IIJG27Rich View Post
    I guess it's Allied only. Had a look at some pages ..really something
    Nope, it's everyone, everywhere all in one book... well five hefty books. At least insofar as they clearly had the sources. Sometimes this is reduced to Luftwaffe claims and losses but there is something about everyone every day in this series of books.
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    !!!!!!!!

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    Heh. I use librarygenesis for downloading books. But you didn’t hear that from me. Highly recommend it if you have the patience because the internet keeps trying to stamp it out. But like a hydra it returns with a new address.

    /it’s the pirate bay of books, they don’t have everything you could ever want but lots of Christopher Shores books are there


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