The Luftwaffe: A HistoryPen and Sword, 12.6.2013 - 310 sivua 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. |
Sisältö
19141916 | 1 |
1917 | 11 |
1918 | 23 |
19181926 | 34 |
19261933 | 42 |
19331935 | 49 |
Spain 1936 | 62 |
1936 | 75 |
Crete 1941 | 155 |
Russia 1941 | 171 |
Malta 1942 | 185 |
Stalingrad 1943 | 207 |
XVIII You can call me Meier Cologne 1943 | 218 |
1943 | 231 |
1944 | 247 |
XXI Fighters Bombers or FighterBombers? 1944 | 262 |
19381939 | 83 |
X Blitzkrieg Poland 1939 | 93 |
France 1940 | 104 |
The Battle of Britain | 122 |
September 1940 | 143 |
1945 | 275 |
May 1945 | 288 |
304 | |
306 | |
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
action Adolf Galland Adolf Hitler aeroplanes Afrika Korps airfields airmen airship Allied anti-aircraft armoured Army attack Battle of Britain became Berlin biplane Boelcke Bomber Command bombing British defence destroyed dive dive-bombers Dornier Dornier Do 17 enemy engines England equipped Ernst Udet escort fighter arm Fighter Command fighter pilots fighting fire fleet Fliegerkorps flying Fokker formations France front Fuehrer German Air Force German aircraft German fighter Germany's Geschwader Goering's Greim guns heavy bomber Heinkel He 111 Hermann Goering Hurricanes Jagdgeschwader Jasta Jeschonnek Junkers Junkers Ju 87 Karinhall Kesselring large numbers later Legion Kondor London losses Luft Luftflotte Luftwaffe machine-guns machines Malta Manfred von Richthofen medium bombers Messerschmitt Bf 109 Milch military monoplane night night-fighter operations proved raid reconnaissance Reichsmarschall remained Rommel Russian ships shot single-seater fighter soon speed Spitfires squadrons staff Stalingrad Stuka success target Third Reich troops twin-engined two-seater types victory waffe weapon wing Zeppelin