Black Cross Red Star: Air War Over the Eastern Front
News! The Black Cross/Red Star series will be published in updated editions by Vaktel Förlag! Starting in 2019...
The never previously published Volume 4, the heavily updated volumes 1, 2 and 3, and further volumes will also be published. Read more below. |
The unique Black Cross/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front in close detail, with the perspectives of both sides. It is based on a close study of German and Russian archive material, as well as interviews with a large number of the airmen who participated in this air war. It has already established itself as the main source on the air war on the Eastern Front. Click here to read reviews: Read more about the old and sold out editions of the the Black Cross/Red Star series below Next, volumes 4 and 5 will be published Great perspectives for a release of Black Cross/Red Star, Volume 4 in 2019! But I need your support.
The manuscript to Volume 4 is more or less completed. And I have started my own publishing house. All I need to do is find time and money to have Volume 4 put into order, to have the layout done and then send it to the printer. The main thing is that I am supporting myself only through my publishing house. I do get around, but it requires much time and work on other projects. I could have Black Cross/Red Star Volume 4 put together and completed within a maximum of two months' time. But I need to know that I get an income for those two months - plainly in order to put the daily bread on the table. So I would need a fair amount of pre-orders. The customer price for the book would be $60.00 plus postage. But in order to bring about a quick release of Volume 4, I consider a crowdfunding-solution. If I can get just 125 crowdfunders to contribute $100 each for Volume 4 (plus postage), it can be published within a couple of months. And the crowdfunders will also have their names printed as an acknowledgment in the book. The crowdfunding payment will not be asked for until I have reached 125 names of people who have volunteered to crowdfund, or the production of the book has become economically viable by any other means. If you can help me to get more e-mail addresses – and above all, people interested in participating in the crowdfunding for Black Cross/Red Star Volume 4, it would be of immense help. Everyone who wants to participate in the crowdfunding should send me an e-mail about that. Then I will reply how they shall pay, and I will also send them a legal statement that I guarantee full repayment if the book has not been published within 12 months. This also applies to people who don't want to crowdfund, but who wish to pre-order a signed copy for $60.00 plus postage. The payment for the pre-orders will not be asked for until I have reached a sufficient number of pre-orders to make the production of the book economically viable. And please spread the word on communities on the Internet! One more thing: Please ask around at book stores in your country to find book stores interested in taking in a couple of copies. No one could inform them better than you of the great interest in this unique book! Once I have managed to publish Volume 4, the whole project is started again, back on track, and then you can expect the subsequent volumes (starying with an updated re-issue of the sold out Volume 1) at regular intervals. I hope you would like to help in this way. No one could be more interested than me to re-start the whole series. I have so much new material that I need to spread!
Air War Over the Eastern Front
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1957 - 2001.
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