A history of the Luftwaffe
by Killen, John
Series: The Bantam war book series Published by : Bantam Books (Toronto) Physical details: 336 p ISBN:0553262750. ISSN:978055326 Year: 1986| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900 - 999 | 940.544943 Kil (Browse shelf) | Available | 66745 |
Browsing Arthur Johnson Memorial Library Shelves Close shelf browser
| No cover image available |
|
|
|
No cover image available |
|
|
||
| 940.544943 Gal The First and the Last | 940.544943 Hel Fighter! Luftwaffe fighter planes and pilots | 940.544943 Jes Focke Wulf 190 | 940.544943 Kil A history of the Luftwaffe | 940.544943 Luf The luftwaffe | 940.544943 Pri The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945, Vol. II | 940.544943 Pri The Luftwaffe, 1935-1945, Vol III. |
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.
66745