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The Night Fighters: A Photographic History of the German Nachtjager 1940-1945 (German Fighters of World War I)

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To try and capture the images of nightfighting in the second world war is a difficult subject indeed but our authors have succeeded very nicely. From the early days of Wolfgang Falck upto the bitter end in 1945. Close ups of conditions and aircraft with insights into the lives of the nightfighters. This book truely encompasses the whole period during which the Nachtjager were involved in the war. The rise and fall of the nightfighters is all there. The loss of valuable crews to useless tactics like dayfighting for nightfighters, the loss of Becker for example. The loss of highly experienced officers like Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Helmut Lent to attrition and accident is all covered in pictures and words. This book is a must for those interested in the story of the nightfigters.