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Luftwaffe: A Pictorial History of the German Air Force of WWII

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Luftwaffe: A Pictorial History of the German Air Force of WWII

Luftwaffe: A Pictorial History of the German Air Force of WWII by Christopher Ailsby
English | April 1, 2014 | ASIN: B00JF4G82Q | 475 Pages | AZW3/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 40 MB

The Luftwaffe played an integral part in Hitler’s Blitzkrieg strategy in the early years of the Second World War, and in later years fought a valiant but ultimately hopeless campaign to prevent Allied aircraft bombing German factories and cities, and wreaking havoc on German forces on the ground.

Luftwaffe is a stunning pictorial record of the Third Reich’s air arm from its establishment in the 1930’s to its war service between 1939 and 1945. With 400 black and white and coloured photographs together with drawings and paintings, the book tells the full, dramatic story of the German Air Force during the Second World War.

This book also includes a brief look at the birth of flight from its inception to its coming of age in the First World War. A glimpse of the Luftwaffe first blooding with rare images of German military aircraft and personnel perfecting the art of Blitzkrieg while fighting for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, just prior to the Second World War.

The biggest campaign of the Second World War was fought in Russia, and Luftwaffe devotes several chapters to the aerial battles on the Eastern Front, showing German aircrews and their aircraft taking part in Operation “Barbarossa” the invasion of Russia in June 1941, when the Luftwaffe destroyed most of the Red Air Force on the ground on the first day. But after the swaggering victories of the first summer in Russia came the reality of a long hard struggle in the East. Luftwaffe shows how the German Air Force tried to achieve the two aims of keeping the skies clear of enemy aircraft and supplying troops, such as those trapped around Stalingrad with food, fuel and ammunition.

Finally considering the fact “too little too late”, the desperate measures employed to halt the Allied waves of Arial bombardment. The advanced technology that if it had been perfected and implemented could have changed the outcome of the War.