Steve Hoarn wrote a highly positive review of Wayne Vansant’s BOMBING NAZI GERMANY for Defense Media Networks’s website on December 4. BOMBING NAZI GERMANY, recently released by Zenith Press (publishers of Vansant’s GETTYSBURG, NORMANDY, GRANT VS LEE, and the forthcoming THE RED BARON), writing “By depicting the air war through illustrations, Vansant has done something truly new.” and continuing:
Bombing Nazi Germany is broad in scope. A reader will see many of the iconic planes of the World War II air war over Europe jump to life on its pages. The Avro Lancaster, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-26 Marauder, Me 110, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, Me 262, they’re all here. Lesser-known planes are also rendered, such as the Me 163 Komet and He 219 Uhu. It’s not all about all the art, though. For a relatively short book, at 104 pages, it packs in a lot of history, from the serious – Operation Chastise and Operation Gomorah – to the silly – the supposed UFO sighting by 8th Air Force pilots. For a reader expecting a breezy book, this came as a surprise. Depending on the education level, this book could be used in the classroom to convey an important historical subject in a novel way. The book also doesn’t limit itself to the U.S. or even Allied story, but incorporates the German perspective. The stories of German civilians and pilots are also added to the narrative, to good effect. This is rare among 600-plus page tomes, let alone a slender book like Bombing Nazi Germany.
Hoarn’s review included several excerpts of art from BOMBING NAZI GERMANY, commenting “Wayne Vansant’s illustrations for Bombing Nazi Germany convey an important historical subject in a novel way.”