Battle of Kuban book recommendations

[Gambit21]

I'm eyeballs deep making the Ju52 campaign right now, but I want to start planning for Kuban and making a decision as to what

aircraft I'll feature for my first campaign using that map. Maybe it will be another Ju52 campaign...but I need research material.

 

Those of you that are well read on the subject - book recommendations please.

I'll understand if the mods move this to History/Aviation, but I'd like to get some eyeballs on it first if you please.

 

Thanks

Gambit

[Dakpilot]

While not a book, I highly recommend downloading Stebas' Kuban Campaign 1943, for IL-2 (1946)

 

although it is set in the early part of the campaign just before BoK will start, it does include his 196 page PDF 'Kuban book" a sort of manual 

 

which has a lot of interesting info, which may be of use/inspiration

 

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=3613

 

A pair of Aces

 

http://www.bergstrombooks.elknet.pl/gg/kuban.htm

 

The Defence and Evacuation of the Kuban Bridgehead, January – October 1943  by David R. Galbraith

 

some good background info

 

http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5581/1/DGalbraithKubanBridgehead.pdf

 

Luftwaffe fighter Ace by Norbert Hannig, can be found as PDF online

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[Gambit21]

Thanks Dak - that will get me going.

[J37_Spyboy]

Christer Bergstrom's books are very expensive.

[=38=Tatarenko]

"Attack of the Airacobras" (D. Loza, trans. J Gebhardt) would be the standard from the Russian side, I'd say. 

[unreasonable]

The Galbraith paper Dakpilot references can be found here:

 

http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5581/1/DGalbraithKubanBridgehead.pdf

 

It is a good and detailed account of the land battle, but has very little in it about the air operations.

[Cpt_Branko]

War diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert.

 

Covers a wider period than just Kuban, but a part of the action is there too. Fascinating read.

[Habu]

I keep an eye on tht topic for these informations. thx for the topic Gambit, and for all who answer it.

[VBF-12_Stele]

Found this article at Maynooth University, Ireland. Although a short 72 pages, the article does have a bibliography at the end, which could be helpful.

 

http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5581/1/DGalbraithKubanBridgehead.pdf

[Gambit21]

Thank you for the responses so far peeps.

[Porkins]

A great recent book about the entire battle of the Crimea, from start to finish, is: Where the Iron Crosses Grow. The first chapter actually reviews fighting over that area going back to the Crimean War, WW I, and the Russian Civil War. Then it settles in to a detailed history of the Nazi campaign to conquer the Crimea, and the Russian counteroffensive years later to take it back.

 

The focus of much of the book is on the Crimean peninsula, but the entire Black Sea area including the Kuban is touched on, if memory serves.