Göring a Biography

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{detailed description}David Irving's Göring is a major new biography of one of the most formidable personalities of the Third Reich, the First World War combat pilot who served as the last commander of von Richthofen's 'Flying Circus' and rose to become Hitler's Reichsmarschall.
Irving tells how Göring connived, intrigued and conspired to bring Hitler to power, how he directed Nazi Germany's industrial resurgence, commanded the Luftwaffe, and served as Hitler's buttress through the years of struggle, triumph and decline.
The fully detailed documentary sources alone command attention: Göring's own surviving diaries, his combat reports from von Richthofen's squadron, the dramatic love-letters to his first wife, the medical dossier on his morphine use, the shorthand records of Reich Air Ministry conferences and evidence from American depositories that reveal Göring's art-looting forays at the very time that 250,000 men were cornered in Stalingrad because his airlift had failed them.
The first chapter draws on Bormann's handwritten orders for Göring's arrest and execution, reconstructing vividly the last days of the 'Thousand Year Reich'. The final chapter reveals for the first time the texts of the defiant letters found in Göring's hand after his suicide in a Nuremberg cell —letters that Allied authorities ruled should never be published and that contain a clue to just how Göring obtained the cyanide that he used to cheat the hangman.
Awesomely informed and searingly controversial, David Irving's Göring is a tour de force, one of the most extraordinary studies of a Nazi warlord ever published.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by David Irving
Published by Macmillan 1989 1st U.K. edition. 573pp illustrated, index, bibliography. 17x24
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