With over 500 photographs(most of which have not been published in any other book),and detailed text and captions, this is a record of the Luftwaffe's clandestine origins, rise, trial by combat and ultimate decline. Based on his extensive research in war diaries, and operational and combat reports, the author presents the real life of the Luftwaffe. Each chapter deals with a phase in German air force history: the Luftwaffe as an underground force; its build-up on a war-establishment basis; the Condor Legion in Spain; the Polish campaign; the 'phoney war' in the west, and Operation 'Weser Exercise': the campaign in France and the aerial war against England: the Balkans. Greece, Crete and the Mediterranean;war on the Eastern Front; North Africa and the German retreat from the Mediterranean; war in the air over Germany and the occupied Western regions.

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