Donald L. Caldwell is a retired research chemist who lives in Lake Jackson, Texas. For the past 25 years he has researched archival sources and interviewed surviving veterans, primarily from the Luftwaffe. His first book, JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe has been followed by four others on Luftwaffe topics; all have won wide critical and popular acclaim for their accuracy, objectivity, and readability.Richard R. Muller is Professor of Military History at the United States Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, where he teaches courses in airpower history, strategy, technology, and innovation. He is the author of The German Air War in Russia (1992) and (with James S. Corum) The Luftwaffe's Way of War: German Air Force Doctrine 1911-1945 (1998), as well as several articles and book chapters.
World War II, "October 2007
"Drawing on newly available primary sources, the authors offer a
solid account of day fighter operations against the American
strategic bomber operations, as well as analyses pulled from German
participants and official observers ... The extensive combat
recollections taken from interviews and firsthand accounts paint a
desperate picture of shrinking numbers of fighters and crews, a
diminishing industrial base, disappearing oil resources, and
increased political infighting - even as top Nazi officials like
Goring still continued to fantasize that the Reich would ultimately
triumph."
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