Bloomsbury Presents Defenders of the Reich by Robert Forsyth, read by Laurence Dobiesz. The story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm's desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II. The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die campaign that saw the very best fighter pilots in the Luftwaffe attempt to defend German skies from increasingly large formations of RAF and USAAF medium and heavy bombers. Flying both piston-engined and, eventually, the first jet-engined fighters to see operational service, the Jagdflieger employed a wide range…mehr
Bloomsbury Presents Defenders of the Reich by Robert Forsyth, read by Laurence Dobiesz. The story of the Luftwaffe fighter arm's desperate defence of the Third Reich from the growing Allied bomber offensive in World War II. The Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) was a do or die campaign that saw the very best fighter pilots in the Luftwaffe attempt to defend German skies from increasingly large formations of RAF and USAAF medium and heavy bombers. Flying both piston-engined and, eventually, the first jet-engined fighters to see operational service, the Jagdflieger employed a wide range of weapons and tactics in an effort to blunt the Allied air offensive across Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe. Defenders of the Reich focusses on the story of the pilot, his aircraft, his weaponry, his draining, dangerous missions and Luftwaffe tactics against the USAAF and the RAF bombers from the summer of 1942 through to VE Day. They fought until they were all but obliterated as USAAF and RAF fighters decimated their ranks in the air and targeted their airfields in devastating strafing attacks. Leading Luftwaffe historian Robert Forsyth uses German and Allied archival documents coupled with interviews with former Jagdwaffe pilots, to tell the history of this last-ditch aerial campaign from the perspective of the Luftwaffe.
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Autorenporträt
Robert Forsyth is an author, editor and publisher, specializing in military aviation and military history. He is the author of over 30 titles for Osprey Publishing on the aircraft, units and operations of the Luftwaffe, an interest he has held since boyhood. He has written articles for The Aviation Historian, Aerojournal, Aeroplane Monthly, Aviation News, Combat Aircraft, and FlyPast and he is a member of the Editorial Board of The Aviation Historian.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Maps Glossary Table of Ranks Part I. Guardians and Goliaths - 1939-42 1 'Shoulder to Shoulder' 2 'An expensive mode of warfare' 3 'One swallow doesn't make a summer' Part II. Head-on - 1942 4 West and South 5 The Slender Sinews of Defence 6 Imbalance of Power Part III. The Cornered Wolf - 1943 7 'Once they have made contact with the bombers, the rest is easy' 8 Defence in Depth 9 Schweinfurt 10 Bitter Harvest 11 'Defensive Victories' 12 'Without regard to losses' 13 Battle Groups and Opera Houses Part IV. Sturm und Drang - 1944 14 Pointblank and the Battle for Air Superiority 15 Big Gun - 'Big Week' 16 'Big B' 17 Bloody April 18 The Last Chance 19 Savage Skies 20 Imminent Danger West 21 All-Out Defence 22 Mass Against Mass 23 Darkening Skies 24 Blow after Blow Part V. Stormbirds - 1944-45 25 Speed and Altitude - The New Weapons 26 Fire in the Sky 27 From 'Elbe' to the End APPENDICES Appendix 1 - Single-engined fighter aces with 20 or more Viermot victories Appendix 2 - Zerstörer aces with ten or more Viermot victories Sources and Selected Bibliography Notes Index
Introduction and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Maps Glossary Table of Ranks Part I. Guardians and Goliaths - 1939-42 1 'Shoulder to Shoulder' 2 'An expensive mode of warfare' 3 'One swallow doesn't make a summer' Part II. Head-on - 1942 4 West and South 5 The Slender Sinews of Defence 6 Imbalance of Power Part III. The Cornered Wolf - 1943 7 'Once they have made contact with the bombers, the rest is easy' 8 Defence in Depth 9 Schweinfurt 10 Bitter Harvest 11 'Defensive Victories' 12 'Without regard to losses' 13 Battle Groups and Opera Houses Part IV. Sturm und Drang - 1944 14 Pointblank and the Battle for Air Superiority 15 Big Gun - 'Big Week' 16 'Big B' 17 Bloody April 18 The Last Chance 19 Savage Skies 20 Imminent Danger West 21 All-Out Defence 22 Mass Against Mass 23 Darkening Skies 24 Blow after Blow Part V. Stormbirds - 1944-45 25 Speed and Altitude - The New Weapons 26 Fire in the Sky 27 From 'Elbe' to the End APPENDICES Appendix 1 - Single-engined fighter aces with 20 or more Viermot victories Appendix 2 - Zerstörer aces with ten or more Viermot victories Sources and Selected Bibliography Notes Index
Rezensionen
Defenders of the Reich is bound to remain a landmark amid the historiography of World War II aviation … A volume expertly balanced between primary and secondary sources, enriched with personal narratives
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