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The Luftwaffe in Colour - The Victory Years, 1939-1942 (Paperback)
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The Luftwaffe in Colour - The Victory Years, 1939-1942 (Paperback)
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This remarkable work pulls the lid off one of the legendary air
forces in history at the very peak of its power-unveiling the and
machines as they truly existed day-to-day, underneath the
propaganda of their own regime and the scare stories of their
enemies. In Hitler's Germany, colour photography was primarily
co-opted for state purposes, such as the military publication
Signal, or the Luftwaffe's own magazine, Der Adler (Eagle). But a
number of men had cameras of their own, and in this painstakingly
acquired collection, originally published in France, we can witness
true life on Germany's airfields during the period of the
Luftwaffe's ascendancy. Thus not only do we see famous planes such
as the Me-109, Ju-87 or He-111, but the wide variety of more
obscure types with which the Germans began the war. The array of
Arados, Dorniers, Heinkels - not to mention elegant 4-engine
Condors - that were initially employed in the war are here in plain
sight and full colour, providing not only an insight into WWII
history but a model maker's dream. Just as fascinating are the
shots of the airmen themselves, along with their groundcrews - full
of confidence and cheer as they bested every other air force in
Europe during these years, with the single exception of the RAF's
Fighter Command in late-summer 1940. But that was no big stumbling
block to the Luftwaffe, which had bigger fish to fry in Russia and
North Africa the following year. In the authors' next work, The
Years of Defeat, we will see how the war turned more grim for the
Luftwaffe, even as its expertise and skill at more deadly aircraft
designs, increased. In The Victory Years we have a uniquely
intimate view of an air force at the very apex of its capabilities.
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