Eagles of the Third Reich - Men of the Luftwaffe in Wwii

Informationen zum Autor By Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. Klappentext Character-based study of why the German air force was defeatedRecounts the Luftwaffe in combat from the blitzkrieg of 1939-40 and the Battle of Britain to the Eastern Front and the Normandy campaignFrom its secret post--World War I beginnings to its virtual destruction by the Allied air forces, the story of the German air force is best told by examining its leaders--brilliant, ambitious, ruthless, and deceitful men like Hermann Goering, the drug-addicted Luftwaffe commander; Erhard Milch, the half-Jewish head of aircraft production; and Adolf Galland, the general of fighters who often clashed with Goering. Mitcham profiles them and others while describing the Luftwaffe's battles--both in the skies and behind the scenes--and explaining why it was so decisively defeated. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Secret Air Force; Command Fragmentation; Spain: The First Battle; The Build-up and the Outbreak of the War; Blitzkrieg; The Air War Against Britain! 1939-42; The Balkans Campaign; Russia! 1941: The Last Blitzkrieg; The Fall of Ernst Udet; The Russian Front! 1942-43; The Bombings Begin! 1942; The Tide Turns! 1943; Defeat on All Fronts; Ritter von Greim: The Last Field Marshall; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Samuel W Mitcham, Samuel W. Mitcham
• Verlag: Stackpole Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.08.2007
• EAN: 9780811734059
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-3405-9
• Seiten: 346
• Serien: Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History; Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika