Stopped at Stalingrad The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943

"For Hayward...it was the generals who were the real heroes of the war. Written in the traditional mode of operational history, his is a competent and heavily documented study of the Luftwaffe's role in the German campaign of 1942-3 in southern Russia, the Crimea and the Caucasus. It has many of the merits and shortcomings of a doctoral dissertation adhering to the rules of conventional military narratives. While the reader learns a great deal about the importance of air power, almost to the extent that the book becomes a 'how to' guide on tactical support, the author's insistence on providing background for his major theme clutters the text with long discussions on German and Soviet land forces and navies, to the point that at times it is difficult to see the wood for the trees."Hayward, Joel S. A is the author of 'Stopped at Stalingrad The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943', published 2001 under ISBN 9780700611461 and ISBN 0700611460.