book recommendation needed

[ATAG_Snapper]

Geoffrey Wellum's " First Light" is excellent! So is Al Deere's "Nine Lives". Brian Lane's "Spitfire" is very good, too. "I Flew for the Fuhrer" by Heinz Knoke has no evil in it, but a good account of flying 109's in WW2.

[No1 Cheese]

Snapper agree Al Deere's "Nine Lives" is a fantastic read also really enjoyed "My part of the sky" by Roland Beaumont,these books are so cheap on amazon i find myself buying 2-3 a month.Also these threads are very helpfull to check up on the titles before buying.

Cheese

[klem]

All these are gold plated IMHO, read and re-read many times:-

Nine Lives, Al Deere, RAF
Wing Leader, Johnny Johnson, RAF
The Big Show, Pierre Closterman, RAF
Tumultuous Clouds, James "Goody" Goodson USAF
First Light, Geoffrey Wellum, RAF
I flew for the Fuhrer, Heinz Knoke, LW
Messerchmitts over Sicily, Macky Steinhoff, LW
First and Last, Adolph Galland, LW (very hard to find)
The Final Hours, Macky Steinhoff, LW
Samurai!, Saburo Sakai, IJA
Flying Start, Hugh Dundas (hard to find, Pen & Sword do a repro copy but with poor photos)

and more on my bookshelves downstairs if you run out of ideas

[kestrel79]

Are all these books based off real people? Or are some of them fiction? I'm in reading mode right now and always looking for some great ww2 aircraft books. I've read a few of the Steven Ambrose books.

Bomber sounds pretty cool.

[klem]

Originally Posted by kestrel79

Are all these books based off real people? Or are some of them fiction? I'm in reading mode right now and always looking for some great ww2 aircraft books. I've read a few of the Steven Ambrose books.

Bomber sounds pretty cool.

All of the books I listed are first hand auto-biographies (written by the person themselves).

[David198502]

thx guys so far for your answers!!
though i have to say, that i didnt expect so much different recommendations.
i thought i will see a few suggested multible times.

[ATAG_Doc]

I am reading: Messerschmitts Over Sicily: Diary of a Luftwaffe Fighter Commander

http://www.amazon.com/Messerschmitts.../dp/0811731596

Based on the author's personal World War II diary
An unflinching look at Luftwaffe combat, tactics, and leadership during the campaign for Sicily
A concluding chapter assesses the war's lessons for air forces
In an account of unusual power, Luftwaffe ace Johannes Steinhoff recounts the final days of the German air force on Sicily in June and July 1943. Facing crushing odds--including a commander, Hermann Göring, who contemptuously treated his pilots as cowards--Steinhoff and his fellow Messerschmitt 109 pilots took to the skies day after day to meet waves of dreaded Flying Fortresses and swarms of Allied fighters, all bent on driving the Germans from the island. A captivating narrative and a piercing analysis, this book is a classic of aerial combat.