This publication is intended as a replacement for the Kookaburra title Luftwaffe Camouflage & Markings 1935-45 Vol 1. which was completed in 1972 and published the following year, but which has now been out of print for some time. When first released, this same book provided a very useful survey of the subject for the period from 1935 until early in 1940. By 1981. however, much of this information had already appeared many times in a variety of books and magazines to the point where it had almost become universal knowledge for those interested in the subject and thus rather pointless for it to be reproduced yet again at the expense of completely new material.