Luftwaffe Generals: The Knight's Cross Holders 1939-1945 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780764332432)

This book presents the biographies of 115 Luftwaffe officers who reached the rank of general and who were awarded the Knight's Cross, and higher grades of the award during their career. This study brings together the highest ranking recipients of this special award from the Luftwaffe, the German air force: men like fighter aces Adolf Galland and Werner M lders; one of the most successful field commanders of the war Albert Kesselring; paratroopers like Kurt Student and Eugen Meindl; Field-Marshals Erhard Milch, Wolfram von Richthofen, Robert Ritter von Greim, Hugo Sperrle, and of course Hermann G ring the Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.

Author: Jeremy Dixon
ISBN-10: 0764332430
ISBN-13: 9780764332432
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.50lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.50w x 1.10d