Description
Title: I Flew for the Fuhrer
Author: Knoke, Heinz
Condition: Very Good Plus – Dust jacket split at edges and tatty. Staining and foxing to the page block. Dust jacket price clipped. Some minor foxing to a few pages, mainly at the front. Couple of pages have 2cm tears. Priced accordingly.
Edition: 5th Edition
Publication Date: 1953
ISBN: Nil
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 185 pages
Comments: This is a second handbook.
Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs and is a fascinating counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots.
Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of war and eventually became commanding officer of a fighter wing. An outstandingly brave and skilful fighter, he logged over two thousand flights and shot down fifty-two enemy aircraft. He had flown over four hundred operational missions before being wounded in an astonishing ‘last stand’ towards the end of the war. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross for his achievements.
In a text that reveals his intense patriotism and discipline, he describes being brought up in the strict Prussian tradition, the rise of the Nazi regime and his own wartime career set against a fascinating study of everyday life in the Luftwaffe. He also reveals the high morale of the force until its disintegration.
His memoirs are both a valuable contribution to aviation literature and a moving human story.
