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To Win The Winter Sky Paperback – June 21, 1998

by Danny S. Parker (Author)

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As Allied and German armies fought on the ground in the Battle of the Bulge, an equally desperate battle raged in the skies overhead, as enemy air forces fought the weather and each other for supremacy.Acclaimed author Danny Parker completes the narrative begun in his highly successful Battle of the Bulge. He covers the important and previously unexplored air aspect of a famous land battle. Those who thought they were thoroughly familiar with Hitler's last offensive will find a wealth of new information here, including exclusive interviews with war-time airmen, over 100 rare photos, the unknown story of German MIAs, Luftwaffe jets and other secret weapons, losses in men and aircraft for both sides from government archives, aircraft performance comparisons, and the innovations in tactics and technology that made victory for one side possible and defeat for the other side inevitable.Through all the facts and figures, Danny Parker weaves a compelling narrative about the airmen on both sides in the last desperate days of World War II, about their conflicts with the enemy and among themselves as they stood on the brink of victory--and defeat. As the end of the war drew near, Allied leaders were divided between British and Americans, air and ground commanders, and advocates of strategic and tactical air operations. On the German side, Luftwaffe leaders Hermann Göring and Dietrich Peltz sought to obey every order to the bitter end, while Luftwaffe fighter commander Adolf Galland struggled to save his last reserves of young pilots from a final and futile slaughter.Danny S. Parker is a former research consultant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Battle of the Bulge, and is the author of "Ten Percent Chance of Victory: The Last Operation of the German Airborne," and The Battle of the Bulge. He is highly regarded by veterans, historians, and active-duty military personnel.

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Danny S. Parker is a former research consultant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Battle of the Bulge. He is the author of To Win the Winter Sky: The Air Way Over the Ardennes , and editor of The Battle of the Bulge: The German View and Hitler's Ardennes Offensive . He lives in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Paperback: 532 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press (June 21, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580970060
ISBN-13: 978-1580970068
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
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well written with great photo images

ByPaul Warrenon March 16, 2017

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Excedllent ver large book, well written with great photo images, maps etc. Probably the best, most detailed book about the Battle of the Bulge and particularly about the Air War related to the Battle of the Bulge which none of the movies and most books do not even touch upon. Most military enthusiast are not aware of Operation Bodenplatte. Good insight on the failure of Allied intelligence is not seeing Battle of the Bulge coming, or the Commanders for not relying on the G2 they were receiving. Vendor dis an excellent job- very fast resonse , well packaged. The condition- better than advertised- hardcover and all pages inside essentially same as New !

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A Most Excellent Book

ByBlueon July 16, 2011

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This book covering the allied airwar over the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge is simply excellent. Well written, understandable, relatively unbiasised day-by-day, blow by blow account of the Allied-German airwar to control the skies over the Ardennes during the Battle. Best description of this key air war segment that that I ever read. A definate 'Buy' in my opinion.

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Masterful History

ByPatrick Foleyon December 18, 2008

Format: Paperback

With so many books and so little time to read them, there are less then a handful that I have ever read twice... this book is one of them and that should tell you what I think of it.

Many people know of the brutal ground fighting during the "Battle of the Bulge": the Malmedy massacre, the 101st `s heroic stand at Bastogne, Ike's controversial decision to give command of the American forces on the north side of the Bulge to Monty, the German's desperate shortage of petrol. Far fewer know that there was just as hard fought, just as brutal a slug fest going on in the clouds above the battlefield. That fight is the subject of this book.

All that being said, this is not a book for someone with a passing interest or looking for some light reading. It is very well researched, well written history and if I were to voice anything negative about it, it would be that at times it might be too detailed, but it still flows very well.

From the end of WWI to present time the casualty numbers show that for a tactical aviator, there is no more dangerous mission than low level ground attack. It is a vicious, deadly conflict and the losses are generally high, much higher in fact then the glamorous air to air war of the "aces" going on thousands of feet above. Whether it is the "glamour" of the one, or the brutality of the other, certainly far more has been written about the air-to-air war then the air-to-mud war, and this book does a marvelous job of at least beginning to redress the imbalance.

One more note... another reviewer wrote that this book is "by Americans to Americans" and that there are no references to German successes. I respectfully, but completely, disagree. Mr. Parker again and again addresses the difference between claims and actual results, and manages frequently to write of what kills/damage could or would later be verified. The Allies after all did win the air war, so it should come as no surprise that they won this battle as well. For the most part this book is written from the American point of view, however you don't have to read far into the book to come across an American group of fighter-bombers (Jabos) that come out of a confrontation with the Jagdwaffe on the short end of the stick. This was the first time that the Luftwaffe had seriously contested air superiority since before D-Day and it was just one of the many shocks to the Allied leadership that accompanied the Ardennes offensive. Parker in fact relates how the Americans, desperate to regain control of the skies, transferred two of the Eighth Air Force's premier fighter groups to the continent to help do so. His well written chapter on Operation Bodenplatte is almost exclusively penned from the German point of view, and he goes into great depth to discuss Adolf Galland's desire for a "Great Blow" and why the Luftwaffe leadership did what it did. I believe it is a very well balanced book.

In short, it is one of the best books I've read about the air war in WWII and is hands down the best book I've read on the air-to-mud war of WWII.

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Poorly written but contains a lot of information

By17thVaInfon January 27, 2016

Format: Hardcover

Parker is thorough, but in this book he is not a great writer or even a good one. A good history should involve the reader in the narrative and carry them away to another time and place. The selection of a diary entry type approach might have worked if he wasn't so chaotic in his approach and his entries lacked color and depth. There are multiple examples of his description of fighter squadron actions where he switches randomly mid-paragraph to mention another action by a different squadron, not in the same fighter group but in a different air-force completely. This makes the narrative completely disjointed and very difficult to follow, as suddenly the reader is whipped across the sky to a different action with no context. As one example, in the description of IX TAC actions on page 284 he suddenly mid paragraph starts describing actions of the 352nd Fighter Group, an Eighth air force group, then just as suddenly casually veers back to the 390th squadron of the 366th fighter group. The editing is also poor. For example the organization table of the ninth air force on page 60 omits the 406th FG in the aircraft types table and includes the allocation of P-47 and P-38s lines twice. Parker compiles a lot of information but it remains for a better writer to make it more accessible.