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Luftwaffe War Diaries [Paperback]

Cajus Bekker (Author)

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Publication Date: September 29, 2001

This is both the only and definitive account of the rise and fall of a crucial arm of the German military machine from the first blitzkreig on Poland through the Battle of Britain to the final desperate stand over Germany. Bekker has drawn on official German archives and collections, combat journals and personal papers of leading officers and much other material unavailable outside Germany. The result is an astonishingly vivid account of a battle of wits and technology that inexorably tilted control of the skies away from the Third Reich. By the time the first jet fighters - the ME 262 - were designed neither the pilots to man them, nor the industry to make them, nor the oil fields to fuel them were available. The bombers and fighters of the Allies commanded the skies of the Reich. This is the story from the German side of how the most powerful air force in Europe was reduced to impotence in six years. It throws much new light on the Second World War. The lessons and methods of the war in the air remain to this day a matter of huge controversy.

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"'Dramatic... important... A classic work' - Washington Star 'A gripping, highly contentious account of the rise and fall of the German air force ti... An excellent account... contains much new material' - Library Journal"

About the Author

Cajus Bekker is the author of number of a books including Hitler's Naval War and Eyes Through Night and Fog: The Story of Radar.

Product Details

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Birlinn (September 29, 2001)
ISBN-10: 1841581429
ISBN-13: 978-1841581422
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,134,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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