40 THE LUFTWAFFE IN WWII: GENEral HISTORIES • AcES, BIOGraPHIES & MEMOIRS The Luftwaffe from the North Cape to Tobruk The Luftwaffe: From Training School to German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Mar- 1939-45 Holger Nauroth. This pictorial book covers the Front - An Illustrated Study 1933-45 seille: The Life Story of the “Star of Africa" the entire WWII-era Luftwaffe on a variety of war fronts Meyer & Stipdonk. This new large format photo Franz Kurowski. A tribute to one of the top fighter in over 500 photos. collection covers Luftwaffe aircraft from the years aces of the WWII, this new full-length biography Size: 7"x10" • 500 bw photos • 240pp. 1933-45. Emphasis is placed on details of unit appears here in its first edition. Marseilles’ war- ISBN: 0-88740-361-1 • hard • $29.95 emblems, codes and markings on a variety of time exploits are legendary with the 158 aerial war fronts, and aircraft. victories, including 17 in one day. He was, and Size: 8.5"x11" • 500 bw photos • 288pp. still is, considered by many of the Luftwaffe aces ISBN: 0-88740-924-5 • hard • $39.95 to be the premier fighter pilot of the Luftwaffe. Size: 8.5"x11" • 200 bw photos • 256pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-517-4 • hard • $49.99 The Luftwaffe in the North African Cam- Luftwaffe Combat Aircraft: Development, Produc- German Fighter Ace Werner Mölders Ober- paign 1941-43 Held & Obermaier. This volume tion, Operations 1935-45 Griehl & Dressel. A detailed maier & Held. This book is an illustrated biography on the North African campaign is a gripping survey and a new perspective on the development of of the legendary Luftwaffe fighter pilot Mölders study of one of the major campaigns of the Luftwaffe aircraft from 1935-45. Special emphasis has – in more than 480 rare photos, documents and Second World War. From the point-of-view of been placed on details of weaponry, equipment and commentaries. Who was this once much-admired Luftwaffe pilots and crews the reader is shown other areas that have up to now been inadequately and honored man? Here Mölders is objectively the campaign from its outset – from the initial covered. Numerous examples of weapons, supplemental portrayed: as a pilot, soldier, and man. victories, to the final battles in Tunisia. armament, and diverse weapons systems. Size: 8.5"x11" • 480 bw photos • 230pp. Size: 7.75"x10.5" • 500 bw photos • 248pp. Size: 7"x10" • 400 bw photos • 196pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2526-4 • hard • $49.95 ISBN: 0-88740-343-3 • hard • $29.95 ISBN: 0-88740-683-1 • hard • $29.95 ACES, BIOgrapHIES & MEMOIRS Six Months to Oblivion: The Defeat of the Luft- Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe Toliver & German Fighter Ace Walter Nowotny Werner waffe Fighter Force Over the Western Front Constable. The most successful fighter pilots of Held. The life of Luftwaffe fighter pilot Nowotny – 1944-45 Werner Girbig. This book covers the last chapter, all time spring to vibrant life again in this revised in photos, documents, and commentary. Nowotny the decline and fall of the air defense of Germany. It is a and updated edition of the classic account of was highly decorated for his 258 aerial victories, diary of losses and a chronicle in which the fighter pilot Germany’s greatest aces in action. The great but was well known, above all, for his deployment plays the lead. In this unabridged edition, Girbig gives aces, even in Germany’s revolutionary Me 262, and command of the Messerschmitt Me 262 detailed analysis of these last months of the Luftwaffe. could not win, yet they fought to the final hour Erprobungskommando. Later his Kommando Size: 6"x9" • 100 bw photos • 236pp. in an unforgettable combat saga. All of it is Nowotny was the first combat operational jet ISBN: 0-88740-348-4 • hard • $29.95 here, exactly as it was lived by the German aces. fighter unit in history. Size: 8.5"x11" • 600 bw photos • 352pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 340 bw photos • 168pp. ISBN: 0-88740-909-1 • hard • $49.95 ISBN: 0-7643-2527-2 • hard • $45.00 The History of German Aviation: The First Luftwaffe Generals: The Knight’s Cross Stuka Pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel Gunther Just. Jet Aircraft Wolfgang Wagner. This book, the Holders • 1939-45 Jeremy Dixon. This book The life story of the highest decorated soldier of first in a multi-volume history of German aviation, presents detailed biographies of 115 Luftwaffe the Wehrmacht. Many photos of Rudel’s aircraft provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of officers who reached the rank of general and throughout his entire WWII-era career. jet aircraft design and development in Germany. who were awarded the Knight’s Cross, and Size: 8.5"x11" • 400 bw photos • 280pp. The solid descriptions, unique photo material, higher grades of the award during their career. ISBN: 978-0-88740-252-4 • hard • $59.99 historical documents, numerous drawings and Size: 8.5"x11" • 280 bw photos • 352pp. complete data tables – published for the first ISBN: 978-0-7643-3243-2 • hard • $69.99 time – make this book indispensable. Size: 8.5"x11" • 260 bw photos • 260pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0488-7 • hard • $39.95 The History of German Aviation: Kurt Tank Fighter General: The Life of Adolf Galland The War Diary of Helmut Lipfert: JG 52 On the - Focke-Wulf’s Designer and Test Pilot - The Official Biography Toliver & Constable. Russian Front 1943-45 Lipfert & Girbig. Aerial combat Wolfgang Wagner. Discusses the life work of Fighter General recounts the career of an outstand- over the Russian front from one who knew it first hand. one of Germany’s greatest aircraft designers in ing combat leader torn from the fighter cockpit Lipfert’s vivid portrayal of his experiences in JG 52 during pictures, tables, drawings, and his own words. to defend his country – and sometimes his own the last three years of WWII will stand as one of the Examined are the ideas and thinking that formed pilots – in the bizarre bureaucracy of the Luftwaffe truly classic chronicles of the Jagdwaffe over Russia. the foundation of Tank’s designsóhis masterpieces High Command. Here in this official biography is Size: 6"x9" • 67 bw photos • 224pp. in long-range and high-speed flight as well as real-life adventure to shame the wildest fiction. ISBN: 0-88740-446-4 • hard • $35.00 flight test results. Size: 8.5"x11" • 140 color/bw photos • 216pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 200 bw photos • 272pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0678-2 • hard • $45.00 ISBN: 0-7643-0644-8 • hard • $39.95 The History of German Aviation: Willy German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann: The Helmut Wick: An Illustrated Biography Messerschmitt - Pioneer of Aviation Design Life Story of the World’s Highest Scoring of the Luftwaffe Ace and Commander Ebert/Kaiser/Peters. Examines Messerschmitt’s life Ace Hartmann & Jäger. The life story of the most of Jagdgeschwader 2 during the Battle as a designer, aircraft builder, and businessman; successful fighter pilot of all time, with 352 air of Britain Herbert Ringlstetter. In just three it begins with the Harth-Messerschmitt gliders combat victories – who spent ten and a half months Wick had risen from Oberleutnant and (1913-1923) and winds its way through to the years behind Soviet barbed wire, surviving prison Staffelkapitän to lead JG 2 and with 56 victories swing-wing P.1101. The forced interruption uprisings, hunger strikes, resistance against the had become the leading German fighter pilot. of German aircraft production after WWII and NKVD and forced labor. After being released he Size: 8.5"x11" • 220 color/bw photos • 160pp. Messerschmitt’s foreign developments are also was still mentally and physically fit enough to fly ISBN: 0-7643-2217-6 • hard • $45.00 given a thorough treatment. F-86 jet fighters in the post-WWII German Air Force. Size: 8.5"x11" • 670 color/bw photos • 416pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 560 bw photos • 296pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0727-4 • hard • $49.95 ISBN: 978-0-88740-396-5 • hard • $59.99 The History of German Aviation: Bombers Hans-Joachim Marseille: An Illustrated In the Skies Over Europe: The Memoirs of Luft- and Reconnaissance Aircraft 1939 to the Tribute to the Luftwaffe’s “Star of Africa" waffe Figher Pilot Günther Scholz Ingo Möbius. Present Roderich Cescotti. Shows the develop- Robert Tate. This new book is a look at the man When WWII started, Scholz was in JG 54 where he mental history of every German airplane utilized better known as “The Star of Africa" on the 65th flew in the Polish and Western Campaigns, the Battle of in the aerial attack and reconnaissance roles. The anniversary of his death – legendary Luftwaffe Britain, and with JG 5 in the war against Russia. Scholz many types, variants, and models – to include ace Hans-Joachim Marseille. Tate takes a look is also one of last surviving members of the “Legion those revolutionary, futuristic projects which at Marseille’s personality, flying skills, physical Condor" able to tell of his experiences. never took to the air – are comprehensively attributes, tactics, and victories through the Size: 6"x9" • 100 bw photos • 304pp. documented and detailed here. words of historians and the men that flew with ISBN: 978-0-7643-3760-4 • hard • $35.00 Size: 8.5"x11" • 300 bw photos • 312pp. and against Marseille in the North African desert. ISBN: 0-7643-1283-9 • hard • $49.95 Size: 8.5"x11" • 260 color/bw photos • 224pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-2940-1 • hard • $49.95.