Junkers Ju 88 Kampfgeschwader in North Africa and the Mediterranean

Osprey's primary Luftwaffe author/artist, JOHN WEAL has written and/or illustrated more than 25 titles in the Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Aviation Elite Units series since 1994. Possessing one of the largest private collections of original German-language literature from World War 2, his research is firmly based on this huge archive. Fluent in German, Weal has also spent much time establishing contact with ex-members of the Luftwaffe, from General Staff Officers of the RLM to frontline aircrew. He has often used these private sources to gain access to further archival material, including complete Luftwaffe orders of battle for the various fighting fronts and individual combat reports. A freelance airbrush artist since the days of the monthly RAF Flying Review, and its various successors, Weal also helps his German wife run a small technical translation and interpreting agency.

• CHAPTER ONEBATTLE IS JOINEDCHAPTER TWOMARITA TO MERKURCHAPTER THREEMALTA OR CAIRO?CHAPTER FOURTWO-FRONT WAR IN AFRICACHAPTER FIVETHE ‘SOFT UNDERBELLY’APPENDICESCOLOUR PLATES COMMENTARYINDEX