Published by The History Press in 2009, 379 pages. Softback (N4296)
Brand New Book
Packed full with black and white photographs showing the planes and crew of the German Air Force during the Second World War, this book presents a fascinating and immensley detailed pictorial history of the Luftwaffe.....
There is much to find intriguing about Hitler's Luftwaffe. During six short years, it rose from almost nothing to become the terror of Europe, and at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, it was undoubedly the most powerful air force in the world - the aircraft were state-of-the-art and the crews were numerous and highly motivated.
During the first two and a half years of the war, the Luftwaffe made possible the German Army's series of lightning victories, and its only serious setback came in the summer of 1940 during the Battle of Britain, when the RAF foiled its attempt to establish air superiority over southern England as a prelude to invasion. Then, gradually but inexorably, the air forces of Germany's enemies became stronger than her own. On each battlefront in turn, the Luftwaffe was forced onto the defensive despite trying to overcome its many problems with great ingenuity and courage. But to the end, it could never be discounted in the Allied calculations....
When the war ended in May 1945 the Luftwaffe possessed some 3,500 combat aircraft. It had fought valiantly against ever-lengthening odds, but when the end came the Luftwaffe was overwhelmed by pressures beyond its control.
Author Alfred Price spent several years touring Germany and interviewing Luftwaffe veterans and the majority of photographs in this book came from their personal albums.
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