Mushroom Model Publications (MMP) is based in the U.K. All their books are printed in Poland by their associate Stratus Publications. Stratus does books in both English and Polish. This book is in English.

The book is hard bound and 176 pages in 11 1/2” x 8” page format. It has a copyright date of this year 2013.

MMP first published a book as soft bound and less pages back in 2004 that has the same title. This new version has revised and new text and new color drawings. Also more info and more conceptual aircraft in it.

The speculation about the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) would have achieved if WWII had continued into 1946 or beyond is a fascinating and rapidly growing field of interest. This book develops some of the intriguing speculation with extensive believable illustrations of aircraft that never flew from the mid thirties until the end of WWII.

There are 55 color drawings (including the 2 on the cover of the book). Thirteen of these are done as 2 views, one is a 4 view, 6 are 3 views and there is a single 5 view.

Added to this are black and white line drawings, that are to no particular scales. 101 of these are side profiles. 15 are 2 views, 55 are 3 views and 4 are 4 views.

There are 46 data lists about the aircraft in the book.

For the FW-189 aircraft there are 4 technical plan drawings.

The Me-P.1101 section includes black and white of the unfinished prototype and one technical plan drawing as a 3 view. This aircraft was captured and taken to Bell Aircraft in the U.S. for evaluation. It was there until the early 50’s when it was finally scrapped.

The book covers projects by:

Arado, Bachem, Blohm und Voss, BMW, Daimler, Dornier, Fieseler, Gotha, Heinkel, Henschel, Horten, Junkers, Lippisch, Messerschmitt and Skoda-Kauba.

Pictured on the back cover are the cover arts of 2 other volumes in this series. Vol. 3 on Bombers and Vol. 4 on Attack, Multi-purpose and other German air projects. All are highly recommended reading.

This book will be of great interests to the WHAT IF group of aircraft enthusiasts and aircraft historians in general as well as modelers.

I want to thank Dr. Roger Wallsgrove , Editor-in-chief of Mushroom Model Publications and the folks at Casemate for this review sample.

Information on all MMP books can be found on their website at: http://www.mmpbooks.biz

The U.S. distributor is Casemate Publications at:www.casematepublishing.com

The Australian distributor is Platypus Publications.