Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron

This book provides the first clear, fully documented view of Manfred von Richthofen - 'The Red Baron'. The most successful air-fighter of World War One, he shot down 80 enemy aircraft in little more than a year fighting over the front lines, using a deadly combination of marksmanship, steel-hard nerves and outstanding talent for the new art of air fighting. An important and almost mythical figure, Richthofen has never been studied in this detail before and many of the sources used for this new biography have only recently been released from Eastern German archives. Tracing the development of fighter aviation through to the mass attack formations of Richthofen's revolutionary Jagdgeschwader 1, this fascinating study also looks into the life and theories of the famous ace and includes his own Air Combat Operations Manual - translated and reproduced for the first time.

by Peter Kilduff
Published by Arms and Armour Press 1995 256pp illustrated, index, appendix, bibliography. 15x23 paperback, fine.






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