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By Colin D. Heaton, Anne-Marie Lewis

For the 1st time, 4 German WWII pilots percentage their part of the story.

Few views epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of strive against extra completely than these of the fighter pilots of global conflict II. As romanticized as any soldier in background, the WWII fighter pilot was once considered as higher than existence: a speeding soul waging struggle among the clouds. within the sixty-five-plus years because the Allied victory, tales of those pilots’ heroics have by no means been in brief provide. yet what approximately their adversaries—the hugely expert German aviators who driven the Allies to the very breaking point of defeat?

Of the entire Luftwaffe’s fighter aces, the tales of Walter Krupinski, Adolf Galland, Eduard Neumann, and Wolfgang Falck shine really shiny. In The German Aces Speak, for the 1st time in any publication, those 4 famous and influential Luftwaffe fighter pilots reminisce candidly approximately their provider in global warfare II. in my opinion interviewed by means of writer and army historian Colin Heaton, they create the earlier to existence as they inform their tales concerning the conflict, their battles, their lives, and, probably most significantly, how they felt approximately serving lower than the Nazi management of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. From exciting air battles to conflicts at the floor with their very own commanders, the aces’ stories reveal a facet of worldwide conflict II that has long gone mostly unseen by means of the yank public: the event of the German pilot.

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