Drawing on many rare and previously unpublished photographs, this is the last volume in a four-part study offering a pictorial account of the Luftwaffe's bomber force before and during World War 2. The series concentrates on the Luftwaffe's conventional and maritime/torpedo bomber aircraft, as well as their camouflages and markings, between 1933 and 1945, along with maps and orders of battle. Each large format paperback features 15 colour profiles illustrating camouflage schemes, tactical markings, numbering and unit insignia as employed on all fronts, as well as a number of personal accounts.

By 1944, when this fourth volume picks up the story of the Luftwaffe's bomber force from the earlier volumes, the tide of war had turned against the Nazis throughout Europe. On the Western Front, invasion was imminent and, once the Allies had landed in June 1944, their advance across northern France and the Low Countries was decisive. In the East, the Russians were advancing inexorably across the territory captured by the Germans in the early days of Operation Barbarossa and, in Italy, the Allied forces were again marching towards victory. The struggle that faced the increasingly war-weary Luftwaffe by 1944 was therefore a very different beast to that of four years earlier. Gone were the bombing missions against Allied cities and in support of Blitzkrieg offensives, in favour of more defensive action. Increasingly, defence of the Reich and its ability to maintain its means of production were all-important and this, inevitably, was reflected in the composition and tactics of the bomber squadrons during this last and decisive phase of the war.

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