This book details what people went through to get these monographs done. It talks about who was involved and why the project came about in the first place. It was not often that anyone who recorded wartime events did so from the enemy’s perspective. Chapter One supplies an overview of all the World War II official military history projects. While historical projects were a part of every war, it was during WWII when people began to fully realize how important historical accounts could be and how they could be used in the future.
Chapter two outlines the Karlsruhe project. The reader gets a timeline what of happened and when it occurred. You learn how these projects were possible and who wanted them done. It is interesting to discover the reasons it was started and what was actually gained. They were written with one purpose in mind but are often valued for something very different. Chapter three focuses on the unforeseen consequences and chapter four discusses just how long it took for the Air Force to realize how valuable the project really was.
This document shows us how potentially useful ideas sometimes get pushed to the back burner because their importance is not immediately seen. It takes years sometimes before the true benefits come to light and by then it can be too late to recover what was lost. The United States had German military officials working with them on these monographs. They had a terrific source of information at their fingertips and did not utilize it completely. The book’s topic is not something many people know about but it is a subject that is worth discovering. The sudoc. number of this item is D 301.26/6: G 31. Come by and check it out!