WW2 Books that you've read??

[redtiger02]

A Pictoral History of the Luftwaffe is great, should be easy to find at Amazon or <gasp> a real bookstore.

"To Fly and Fight" by Col. Bud E. Anderson (ret.) is also a great book about combat against the Luftwaffe in a P-51D. He really goes into the tactics and emotional toll that fighting in the air takes on a pilot. Also, I would recommend watching every episode of Dogfights on the History Channel that you can find. They break every single fight down move by move and show you what went right, what went wrong, what could have been done better, what was just luck.

[Riceball]

No books I can think of. But I have read Avaition History, and Air Classics magizines for a few years now. Each issue has a couple multi-page stories, mostly WW1 thru Vietman. They have updates on restorations, airshows, all kinds of stuff. I like AH better but they are both recommended.

[redtiger02]

Also, if you have a lot of time to burn, read all the volumes of "The War in the Air" by Sir Walter Raleigh, not the colonial type guy, the professor type guy. It's several volumes long but it covers everything there is to know about WW I flight.

[Tally-Ho]

My most recent WWII books about pilots were


Aircrew (can't remember who wrote it)
Fighter Boys (can't remember who wrote it)
Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose

Enjoyed all of them.

[Swagger7]

I've read Samurai and Stuka Pilot! Another good book is On Boyington's Wing, written by Pappy Boyington's wingman. If you want a good WWI read, checkout Wind in the Wires and An Escaper's Log, both by Duncan Grinnell-Milne. He was a British pilot who got shot down and captured, but escaped and returned to the air to become an ace (6 kills I think) Basically, you've gotta read the first half of WitW, then An Escaper's Log, then the rest of Wind in the Wires. Escaper's Log was written first, hence the weird format. They're both fairly hard to find, so if you're interested, I'd suggest Inter Library Loan (or whatever they call it outside the US).

[manintrees]

Thunderbolt by Robert S Johnson.

[ThatYoungGameGuy]

Blue Man Falling is a good book. It follows an RAF pilot through the taking of France.

[HauptmannMolders]

Phew, there's been a few!

-Jagdgeschwader 51
-Jagdgeschwader 53
-Jagdgeschwader 26
-Bf 109D/E Aces 1939-1941
-Fw190 Aces of the Weestern Front
-FW190 Aces of the Russian Front
-Hurricane Aces 1939-1940
-Spitfire Aces 1939-1940
-P-51 VS FW190
-Spitifre VS Bf 109
-Luftwaffe Aces
-The Illustrated Biography of Werner Molders
-The Illustrated Biography of Helmut Wick

and many many more I cannot think of right now.