PHOENIX TRIUMPHANT: The Rise and Rise of the Luftwaffe.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj (£20.00),with a small water(?) stain around price's vicinity - boards unaffected.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour illustrated upper wrap,b/w photographic rear wrap (WW11 German airplanes); with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Dw/dj design repeated to glossy laminated boards.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus,7-320pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages, contents list/table,author foreword,comparative ranks list,abbreviations,9 chapters,profuse b/w contemporary photographs;48pp in 3 blocks of 16pp apiece between pp96/7,pp160/61 and pp224/25 respectively, appendices (11),7pp bibliography,glossary,and an index. From the ashes of a shattered nation in 1918,the German Air Force rose again.The climax of the campaign in the West in 1940 - when the Luftwaffe was to play a vital role - can now be seen as the zenith of its fortunes and strengths.But the victories won during 1939-40 were as nothing to those won over the previous twenty years,as Germany overcame the restrictions that had been imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.This book,the product of much new research in military archives in Germany,France and Britain,tells the story of how Germany came to develop the Luftwaffe.Here are the secret years of German aviation up to 1935,when even the German government was misled as to the existence of training programmes,while barely any effort was made to meet the Armistice demands. . . Edward Hooton demonstrates just how well informed Allied intelligence agencies were of Luftwaffe development,but of the failure to use that intelligence correctly; how the Luftwaffe's training organization failed to improve upon the flawed system of World War One; and of the existence of a genuine strategic role for the Luftwaffe and plans to fulfil it.Other facts that emerge from this study are the extent to which later Luftwaffe strength and quality relied on a few far-sighted individuals in its early days; the contribution of Milch,in organizing the aircraft industry; of Wever,in shaping operational doctrines and concepts until an untimely death; and of Blomberg,in allowing the Luftwaffe to exist as an autonomous organization. The story of the Luftwaffe from creation to victorious justification in war is vividly told here for the first time in detail and in one volume.It is a fascinating insight into a unique period of military aviation,as tactics and technology raced each other, set against a background of rearmament and resurgent German militarism in the years before and during the initial campaigns of WW2. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!