Research Archives - Air War Publications

Pushing to Rocroi: 16 May 1940

by Adam Thompson | May 16, 2026 | 2.(H)/14, A Little Bit of Everything, France 1940, Frontline, Hs 126, Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe Units, Pilots, Potez 63, Research, Western Front

IntroductionThe German invasion of France and the Low Countries that began on 10 May 1940 caught the British, French, Dutch and Belgians off guard. With troops and tanks of the Heer sweeping through the Ardennes, Allied forces found themselves out of position. With...

Nachtjagd Over The Eastern Front Going to the Print Shop

by Morten Jessen | Apr 25, 2026 | Aces, Bf 110, Books, Courland, Crimea, Do 217, Eastern Front, Frontline, Fw 189, Halifax, He 111, Il-4, Kursk, Leningrad, Luftwaffe Units, Moscow, Nachtjagdgeschwader 100, Nachtjagdgeschwader 101, Nachtjagdgeschwader 102, Nachtjagdgeschwader 5, Pe-8, Pilots, Po-2, Publications, Research, Romania, Stalingrad, U-2, VVS Units

The Air War Publications team is very excited to share our latest news with you: the Nachtjagd Over The Eastern Front book is going to the print shop at the beginning of May. It will be printed and bound in that month and shipped to our warehouse, ready for...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

by Morten Jessen | Dec 20, 2025 | A Little Bit of Everything, Publications, Research

Another Christmas is approaching and 2026 is not far away. The team at Air War Publications have been very busy these last few months, with our primary focus on finishing Sven Carlsen’s Nachtjagd Over the Eastern Front book. All of that hard work has been worth...

17 September 1939: Instead of Warsaw

by Adam Thompson | Sep 24, 2025 | A Little Bit of Everything, Frontline, He 111, Kampfgeschwader 4, Luftwaffe, Pilots, Poland 1939, Research

He 111 ‘5J + CA’ of the Stab KG 4 photographed at Lodz-Lublinek on 17 September 1939 whilst on a stopover during the course of a reconnaissance over the Bzura pocket. With the German invasion of Poland two-and-a-half weeks old, by 16 September 1939 the...

Interview with Robert Forsyth

by Morten Jessen | Jan 31, 2025 | Interview, Jagdverband 44, Me 262, Mosquito, Publications, Research

We are very pleased to present an interview conducted with our long-time friend and research colleague – Englishman Robert Forsyth. The Air War Publications team have known him for more than twenty years, and he took on Andrew and Morten’s Focke-Wulf Fw...

Season’s Greetings from Air War Publications

by Andrew Arthy | Dec 22, 2024 | Books, Eastern Front, Frontline, Ju 52, Kampfgeschwader zbV 1, Luftwaffe, Moscow, Publications, Research

Another year has flown by, and the Air War Publications team would like to send Season’s Greetings to all our followers around the world. We hope you have a safe and happy season of joy. As we wrote recently, even though our online presence has been a little...