| Hermann Goering in the First World War: The Personal Photograph Albums of Hermann Goering. Volume 1 Contributor(s): Taylor, Blaine (Author) |
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ISBN: 162545046X ISBN-13: 9781625450463 Publisher: Fonthill Media OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - General - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | Military - World War I |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014497812 |
| Physical Information: (1.75 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who cheated the hangman's noose at Nuremberg by committing suicide just hours before he was due to be hanged. Next up might be the image of his powerful German air force in the Second World War---the Luftwaffe---bombing defenseless European cities and towns in the early part of the war, until it was defeated by the British Royal Air Force in the epic Battle of Britain in 1940. Next might come Goring the debauched art collector who pirated captured collections all over Nazi Europe during the Occupation years. All of these images are correct, but here we see another Hermann Goring: the slim, dashing fighter pilot and combat ace of an earlier struggle, the Great War, or World War I of 1914-18, which he began as an infantry officer fighting the French Army in the 1914 Battle of the Frontiers. During a hospitalization, his friend Bruno Lorzer convinced him to become an aerial observer-photographer, photographing the mighty French fortress of Verdun. He did, and began these never-before-seen personal photo albums of men and aircraft at war: up close. |
Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Blaine: - Blaine Taylor is the American author of 12 histories on war, politics, automotives, biography, engineering, architecture, medicine, photography, and aviation. The well-read historian is a former Vietnam War soldier and Military Policeman under enemy fire, political and crime newspaper reporter, award-winning medical journalist, international magazine writer, winner of four political campaigns as a press secretary, and a US Congressional aide on Capitol Hill, Washington, 1991-92. |