Format:
ix, 304 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen, Portraits
ISBN:
9781911512745
Content:
"The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift - and even, in post-war British hands, a tool in helicopter design - it was linked to some of the best-known personages of the conflict: Hitler, Speer, Rommel, Mussolini, Churchill and Stalin. Furthermore, as Nigel Holden suggests in this first complete biography in English of Gerhard Fieseler (its creator), no other plane had a comparably equivalent role in that war. Making use of Fieseler's own autobiography and other material never reproduced in English, Holden chronicles Fieseler's life against four distinct, interlocking German contexts: the Reich of the erratic Kaiser Wilhelm II; the unloved years of the Weimar Republic; the Nazi era; and the anxious Federal Republic. He also traces Fieseler in the context of aviation development in the first 50 years of the 20th century."--
Language:
English
Keywords:
Fieseler, Gerhard 1896-1987
;
Fieseler-Storch
;
Geschichte
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
Author information:
Holden, Nigel 1945-
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