Luftwaffe Generals: The Knight's Cross Holders 1939-1945

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.