Colin D Heaton
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For the first time, four German WWII pilots share their side of the story .Few perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the WWII fighter pilot was viewed as larger than life: a dashing soul waging war amongst the clouds. In the sixty-five-plus years since the Allied victory, stories of these pilots' heroics have never been...
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The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWIIs most noteworthy German pilots.When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heatons and Anne-Marie Lewiss masterful command of interview-based narrative, writing, . . . what might have been numbing recitations of dogfights are instead vivid descriptions of life as a warrior during World War II. Indeed, it is this unexpected...
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Four-War Boer traces Pieter Krueler's highly colorful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a fourteen-year-old scout, to his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa to the Spanish Civil War to World War II, this time with the Allies, and on into the latter part of the twentieth century, when he served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. Later, in his eighties, he became a civilian trainer for the original...
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The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and political difficulties, resulting in it not entering combat until August 1944, with claims of nineteen downed Allied aircraft. The performance of the Me 262 so far exceeded that of Allied aircraft that on 1 Sepember...
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Zenith Press
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2012.
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Chronicles the life of the undisciplined Luftwaffe officer whose skills as an air pilot bloomed while under the tutelage of Eduard Neumann, looking at how he was able to both reject Nazi ideology and become Germany's greatest fighter pilot.
