John Weal

Luftwaffe Sturmgruppen (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Weal, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 'storm troopers' of the Luftwaffe, the elite Sturmgruppen units comprised the most heavily armed and armoured fighter interceptors ever produced by the Germans.

Their role was to smash like a mighty fist through the massed ranks of USAAF daylight bombers. Only volunteers could serve with these elite units, and each pilot was trained to close with the enemy and engage him in extremely short-range combat, attacking from the front and the rear in tight arrowhead formations. In exceptional circumstances pilots would even ram their enemy.

This book chronicles the brief, but violent, career of the Sturmgruppen during the dark days of 1944-45, employing first-hand accounts and rare archival photography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780963556
• Artikelnr.: 38349231

Autorenporträt

John Weal is Osprey's primary Luftwaffe author and artist. He has written, illustrated and/or supplied artwork for several titles in the Aircraft of the Aces series. He owns one of the largest private collections of original German-language literature from World War 2, and his research is firmly based on this huge archive.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER ONE STURMSTAFFEL 1
TRIAL BY FIRE CHAPTER TWO IV.(STURM)/JG 3
A SHAKY START CHAPTER THREE OSCHERSLEBEN
NATIONAL HEROES CHAPTER FOUR PEAK STRENGTH, DIMINISHING RETURNS CHAPTER FIVE THE BULGE, BODENPLATTE AND THE END IN THE EAST CHAPTER SIX POSTSCRIPT
FROM STURM TO RAMM APPENDICES COLOUR PLATES COMMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX