Luftwaffe Generals: The Knight's Cross Holders 1939-1945
Book Details
Author(s)Jeremy Dixon
PublisherSchiffer Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN / ASIN0764332430
ISBN-139780764332432
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Sales Rank2,521,619
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This book presents the biographies of 115 Luftwaffe officers who
reached the rank of general and who were awarded the Knight s Cross,
and higher grades of the award during their career. This study brings
together the highest ranking recipients of this special award from the
Luftwaffe, the German air force: men like fighter aces Adolf Galland
and Werner Mölders; one of the most successful field commanders of
the war Albert Kesselring; paratroopers like Kurt Student and Eugen
Meindl; Field-Marshals Erhard Milch, Wolfram von Richthofen, Robert
Ritter von Greim, Hugo Sperrle, and of course Hermann Göring the
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.
reached the rank of general and who were awarded the Knight s Cross,
and higher grades of the award during their career. This study brings
together the highest ranking recipients of this special award from the
Luftwaffe, the German air force: men like fighter aces Adolf Galland
and Werner Mölders; one of the most successful field commanders of
the war Albert Kesselring; paratroopers like Kurt Student and Eugen
Meindl; Field-Marshals Erhard Milch, Wolfram von Richthofen, Robert
Ritter von Greim, Hugo Sperrle, and of course Hermann Göring the
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.

