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I have tried a number of times to get the book published in English. USNI for example thinks it will not interest their readers as I have not written book number 1001 about the Kaiserliche Marine in general... but only on one of the most active parts of it... Don't understand the kind of logic they handle, as they did publish some really interesting material in the past.
Some specialised British publishers do not dare to publish it because of the cost and the questions they have on the possible success.
It looks as that the reactions I did get from the UK, US and other English language countries proof the opposite, as the German version sold quite good outside Germany. As did the Dutch one.
My material is now complete, which was not the case in 1996-1997 when I finished the Dutch/German version. Especially concerning the naval air units many questions remained. This has been solved for the largest part. I should be able to publish in the first two weeks a CD-rom with about 112 photo's of the various units, airfields and pilots of the Marinekorps. Thanks to some of my foreign correspondants I did get some wonderfull material ! The CD (also available as a book by the end of the month) also has 7 pages of basic information on the units (name, established..., commanding officers, used airfields, etc.)
I'm also preparing other photobooks/CD roms (a bit like the ones from Shiffer or Waffen Arsenal) on the U-boats of the Marinekorps Flandern and on the Torpedoboats and destroyers of the MKF also both in English.
I also have new material which is as good as finished for a Dutch book on the 38 cm naval guns in Flanders, which were used by the Marinekorps (Predikboom at Klerken, Pommern or Leugenboom at Koekelare-Moere and Deutschland at Bredene). Perhaps a English version will follow. This is after all extremely specialised lecture.
Occasionaly I also do small battlefield tours for people interested in the Marinekorps Flandern. There are not that many remains, but some are really interesting (Batterie Aachen, gunemplacement 38 cm guns Pommern and Predikboom, the bunker called the Vikingship, the bunkers of the Hollandstellung, parts of the Flandern II Stellung near the coast, locations of the airfields are sometimes still intact,...)
I really do mean it that if anyone on the Forum has questions for me personally or in general, never must hesitate te ask them. It is a most interesting part of history that has been as good as completely forgotten. And it makes me most certainly happy that there are more and more people interested in the history of the Marinekorps Flandern.
