more Zerstörer - new Luftwaffe books

Volume 5 of the Paul Stipdonk/Michael Meyer ZG/NJG series is now published in hardback by JAPO. Click on the cover image to go to the JAPO web site for a contents listing and sample pages. Another 304-page book of Zerstörer, this volume is devoted primarily to III./ZG 26, ZG 52, V./KG 40 and ZG 76 and features around 600 photos, the majority processed by the authors from the original negatives and reproduced in high quality by JAPO. The text comprises outline histories of each individual Staffel and StaKa with loss details where known.

Vols 1-4 of this series were previewed on this blog here

A few examples of each of these volumes are still available from the authors at this link, while in the US you can still get these from ebay seller 'Luftdad'. 

 Elsewhere the current issue of "Flypast" has published a review by Andy Thomas of Book 2 of the Casemate Illustrated two-volume set on the NJG aces

And a comment from a blog reader just received;

".. Just received the night fighters book - very nicely done! Actually a few pics I have not seen before, including that He 219 pic and several others. Only criticism was on page 20 where Hajo Herrmann was listed as one of 4 KIA. Great personal accounts of mission action and using Claes Sundin as the profile artist is top notch... "