Introduction

The subject of Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen has been a topic almost everyone interested in WWI aviation has touched on at one time or another.

Truth be told much of the information that has been spread concerning this man is a regurge of information that was published by authors who limited their comments to text publish by previous authors. They were a product of their times.

The reputation of any author should tell you whether the published text is a viable source.

Two authors in recent years published works on the final hours of 2nd Lt. Frank Luke AEF. Their work was impeccable and resulted in hard core evidence that was almost lost to us.

Mr. James Miller is one such credible author. He has spent the better part of his adult life getting to the truth and discarding the bad research that has dogged other publications to bring the unvarnished truth to light.

It was an honor to contribute to this text when I was asked.
Mr. Miller has poured over the available documents and photos spending years separating the wheat from the chaff.

His first major work was “Manfred von Richthofen -The aircraft, Myths and Accomplishments of” was published in about 2009.
We have had conversations concerning various subjects for about 11 years now and his knowledge is very impressive.

The Contents

Initially, it took about 3.5 hours to do a quick read through.

Overall one of the finest collections of images and documents I have ever seen.

Because MvR has such a great weight with all of us, I have spent the better part of my research time this past month going from chapter to chapter. I must conclude this is one of the finest texts on Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen that has ever been published.

My own meager contributions aside the whole body of these books goes into greater depth than anything on this subject that has come before. Only Jim Miller and the collective staff at Aeronaut Publishing could have done such a meticulous job to this high a caliber.

You get two volumes 474 total pages in a coffee table size format.

Images of MvR at his ease and visually jovial that has not been seen by the public.

Conclusion

There are analysis of aircraft he flew and remnants of the ones he brought down. You will see details of the museum he had at Roucourt and the one his mother established after the war.

In these books you will find factual statistics and large higher resolution images.

On the minus side there are only a couple of glitches.

Note that on the spine of Volume #2 that the words Volume #2 have been overprinted.

The typos are very few and I only found 3 in 474 pages.

The good thing is with modern desk top publishing these will be ironed out in future printings.

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