Format:
1 online resource (242 pages)
ISBN:
9781473800168
Content:
John Killen's exhaustive work is a study of German air power between 1915 and 1945, from the early days of flying when Immelmann, Boelke, Richtofen and other First World War aces fought and died to give Germany air supremacy, to the nightmare existence of the Luftwaffe as the Third Reich plunged headlong to destruction.Here are the aircraft: the frail biplanes and triplanes of the Kaiser's war; the great Lufthansa aircraft and airships of the turbulent Thirties; the monoplanes designed to help Hitler in his conquest of Europe. Here are the generals who forged the air weapon of the Luftwaffe - the swaggering Goering, the playboy Udet, the ebullient Kesselring and the scapegoat Jeschonnek; here, too, are the pilots who tried to keep faith with their Fatherland despite overwhelming odds; Adolf Galland, Werner Molders, Joachim Marseille and Hanna Reitsch. Not least are the actions fought by the Luftwaffe from the Spanish Civil War to the Battle of Britain, through the bloody struggle for Crete and the siege of Stalingrad to the fearful twilight over Berlin.
Content:
Intro -- Half Title -- Full Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- I Aircraft and Aces -- 1914-1916 -- II Year of Attrition: 1917 -- III The Broken Wings: 1918 -- IV Phoenix Rising: 1918-1926 -- V Awaiting Events: 1926-1933 -- VI Air Force in Embryo: 1933-1935 -- VII Into the Arena: Spain, 1936 -- VIII The End of the Airships: 1936 -- IX Austria to Poland: 1938-1939 -- X Blitzkrieg! Poland, 1939 -- XI The Battering Ram: France, 1940 -- XII A Fortress Besieged: The Battle of Britain -- XIII Heinkels Over London: September, 1940 -- XIV Sunshine and Slaughter: Crete, 1941 -- XV Red Star Burning: Russia, 1941 -- XVI The Unconquerable Island: Malta, 1942 -- XVII Airlift to Disaster: Stalingrad, 1943 -- XVIII "You can call me Meier!" Cologne, 1943 -- XIX Bombing Round the Clock: 1943 -- XX Disintegration: 1944 -- XXI Fighters, Bombers or Fighter-Bombers? 1944 -- XXII Dresden and Berlin: 1945 -- XXIII Cry Havoc to the End: May, 1945 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781591109
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781781591109
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1718494
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