Description
Title: The Last Flight of the Luftwaffe: The Fate of Schulungslehrgang Elbe, 7 April 1945
Author: Weir, Adrian
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0304354473
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 192 pages
Comments: The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.
Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped group of Luftwaffe crew decided on one final ‘death or glory’ kamikaze mission – their trage an incoming USAAF Eighth Air Force bomber formation, their only weapons their aircraft. Adrian Weir has researched this remarkable flight to retell it minute by minute: a hopeless gesture of immense courage, thrilling as the reader flies in the cockpit with the German pilots towards the unstoppabel aircarft of the Mighty Eighth. Including accounts from the survivors of the mission, this is one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.
