KG 200 is one of those units that is surrounded by mystery and tall tales. In this book, the authors have done a great deal of primary research to weed out the fact from the fiction. This includes conversations with many of the men who were instrumental in the operations of this fabled unit.

As a unit, KG 200 did not exist until half-way through the war; the result of bringing several different 'special units' under a singular control. Yet this book covers each of those special branches from their beginning until the end of the war. Probably the most intriguing part of KG 200 was the use of captured Allied aircraft to drop agents and spies behind the lines. They were also instrumental in the development of 'Mistel' composite aircraft. Fortunately for us all, KG 200 was subject to the same indecisive leadership of German military heirarchy that plagued the rest of the German forces in the last years of the war. As a result, several good plans were never properly put into effect and an equal number of hare-brained schemes were proposed and put into action.

All in all an excellent read and full of a number of operations that I was totally unaware of before reading this book. It is the sort of book that draws you in as the authors put you inside each of the many intriguing operations carried out by this most interesting unit.

The result is a book that is bound to do well and it is one that I can highly recommend as probably the finest book on the subject yet published.

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