| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; 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 |
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XVI The Unconquerable Island: Malta, 1942XVII 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 |
| Summary |
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 - |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Germany. Luftwaffe -- History
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Germany. Luftwaffe.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany. Luftwaffe fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German
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Military operations, Aerial -- German
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781473800168 |
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1473800161 |
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