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With over 500 photographs, this is an dramatic pictorial history of the German day-fighter arm from its clandestine beginnings in 1933 to its disbandment in 1945. Seen through the lens of German war photographers, it depicts the Luftwaffe in action in each theatre of war, including: -The Spanish Civil War -The Polish Campaign -Battle of the German Bight -The 'Phony' War and the Battle of France -The Battle of Britain, including the Blitz -The 'Channel Dash' of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau -North Africa and the Mediterranean -The Soviet Campaign -The defence of the Reich. In order to put the photgraphs into perspective, every section begins with general background information relevant to the period.
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Fighter!, Werner Held, Alfred Price
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- Released
- 1979
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- Title
- Fighter!
- Subtitle
- Luftwaffe Fighter Planes and Pilots
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Werner Held, Alfred Price
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall, Inc
- Released
- 1979
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0853681333
- ISBN13
- 9780853681335
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- With over 500 photographs, this is an dramatic pictorial history of the German day-fighter arm from its clandestine beginnings in 1933 to its disbandment in 1945. Seen through the lens of German war photographers, it depicts the Luftwaffe in action in each theatre of war, including: -The Spanish Civil War -The Polish Campaign -Battle of the German Bight -The 'Phony' War and the Battle of France -The Battle of Britain, including the Blitz -The 'Channel Dash' of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau -North Africa and the Mediterranean -The Soviet Campaign -The defence of the Reich. In order to put the photgraphs into perspective, every section begins with general background information relevant to the period.