Böcker av John Weal

The most versatile German aircraft of World War II, the Junkers Ju 88 served as a fighter, bomber and patrol aircraft on every front. This volume is the first of three to cover the Ju 88's extensive service record and includes 1/96 scale drawings and archival photographs.

Arguably the archetypal Luftwaffe fighter unit of World War 2, JG 53 aircraft were encountered on almost every fighting front from the first day of hostilities until the last. Based on the author's years of researching the German archives, along with his personal contact with several veterans, this book presents an account of JG 53's eventful war.

The 4-year long Eastern Front campaign fought between Germany and the Soviet Union produced the greatest number of aces, and also the highest individual and unit scores ever recorded. This book covers the Luftwaffe fighter pilots credited with scores of between 50 and 100, and provides first-hand accounts from the combat veterans themselves.

JG 51 is Luftwaffe's top wartime fighter units. The unit's history encapsulates the fortunes of the Luftwaffe's fighter arm as a whole - the heady successes of the early months, the steady attrition and the growing strength of the opposition during the mid-war years, and the final chaos and collapse of the last days.

This title examines the unit that was the mainstay of the German fighter force on the Eastern Front during World War II - the JG 54 "Grunherz" ("Green Hearts"). Men like Hans Philipp, Walter Nowotny and Otto Kittel are profiled, along with their struggle in the face of overwhelming odds.

Jagdgeschwader 52 was the most successful and highest-scoring fighter unit, not just in Germany's Luftwaffe, but in the entire annals of aviation history. This text provides a full combat history of the JG 52 and its members, including the three top-scoring aces of all time, who claimed a total of 900 victories between them.

This volume charts the wartime career of the Jagdgeschwader "Richthofen" - the JG 2. It begins with its first aerial kills on the Franco-German border in November 1939, and proceeds to the destruction of its own Fw 190s in the face of Allied advance at Prague-Ruzyne airfield in April 1945.

After seeing considerable action in the Battles of France and Britain, Jagdgeschwader 27 provided Rommel's Afrika Korps with fighter protection for virtually the entire Western Desert campaign 1941-1943. It produces the highest scoring German ace in the West - Han-Joachim Marseille.

One of the most important components of the front-line Luftwaffe was the Schlacht, or ground attack, arm. This work details the Schlacht units who were in the thick of the fighting from the first day of the war until the last.

The 'storm troopers' of the Luftwaffe, the elite Strumgruppen units comprised the most heavily armed and armoured fighter interceptors ever produced by the Germans. Their role was to smash like a mighty fist through the massed ranks of USAAF daylight bombers. Only volunteers could serve with these elite units, and each pilot was trained to close with the enemy and engage him in extremely short-range combat, attacking from the front and the rear in tight arrowhead formations. In exceptional circumstances pilots would even ram their enemy. This book chronicles the brief, but violent, career of the Sturmgruppen during the dark days of 1944-45, employing first-hand accounts and rare archival photography.