The Hunting Falcon to be released in the UK on Friday, 14 February

The Hunting Falcon is being released in the UK the Friday, 14 February.

According to Amazon.com it will be released in the U.S. March 31, 2025.

The Hunting Falcon covers the story of the third German ace to be awarded the Blue Max, after Immelmann and Boelcke. Hans-Joachim Buddecke was the fighter pilot and squadron leader who established German air dominance over Gallipoli in late 1915 – early 1916. A book of his story was published in German in 1918 but was never translated until recently. We (meaning Jay Karamales) translated it, and then we researched the background behind some of his stories. So the book alternates between several translated chapters from his book then a chapter explaining in more depth the people and events behind his story. For example, it includes a detailed description of the air operations around Gallipoli.

Hans-Joachim Buddecke story starts in Indianapolis before the Great War. He talks about his American cousin and uncle who had recently encouraged him to move from Germany to the United States. We have been able to research and identify that uncle as Albert Lieber, a very successful brewer and businessman in Indianapolis, who he went into the airplane business with. His cousin was Edith Lieber Vonnegut, the tall and attractive socialite mother of the famous atmospheric scientist Dr. Bernand Vonnegut (1914-1997) and the even more famous writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007).

Leaving his airplane at the infield of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Hans Buddecke snuck past the British blockade into Germany and became third ace in the German air force. This book details for the first time his complete story, including the unsavory aspects of it.

Christopher A. Lawrence

Christopher A. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience.
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Mr. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation.
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His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) , The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019), The Battle for Kyiv (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2023), Aces at Kursk (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024), Hunting Falcon: The Story of WWI German Ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024) and The Siege of Mariupol (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2024).
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Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

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3 Comments

Rich

February 12, 2025 / 12:50 pm Reply

Awesome guys!
- Christopher A. Lawrence
  
  February 12, 2025 / 3:19 pm Reply
  
  Thanks. This one took a while to get released.
Neal Bliven

February 18, 2025 / 6:44 pm Reply

Chris, you have very good book cover designers. That’s important for marketing purposes! You can’t tell a book by its cover, but it increases the odds of readers opening the book and then being in a position to tell about the book. Hope that you get many readers!