Messerschmitt
By: Armand van Ishoven
Publisher: Omega; Galleon; [Distributed by Futura Publications]
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780904442045; 9780860073086
Copyright date: 1975
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; German Aerial operations; Aerial Military operations; German
Description: "A profusely illustrated record of the man and his aircraft up to the time of Germany's collapse in 1945.  With a keen insight into the rise and demise of Hitler's Luftwaffe, the author analyses the achievements of Professor Willy Messerschmitt, creator of a remarkably wide range of commercial and military aircraft, who began his career as a pioneer gliding enthusiast and rose rapidly to fame and fortune in the German aircraft industry.  He describes in detail nearly all the aircraft types and projects with which Messerschmitt was involved until 1945, and traces the development of Messerschmitt's distinctive style of aircraft design.  Throughout, his analysis is backed up by a unique collection of photographs and drawings, many of which have never been published before.  He also describes the influence exerted upon Messerschmitt's career by many of the key figures in Nazi Germany: Erhard Milch, Herman Goring, Ernst Udet, Rudolf Hess, and of course Adolf Hitler himself, who showered Messerschmitt with medals and awards and whose gross overestimation of the Luftwaffe had disastrous consequences for Germany's conduct of war." --Back cover.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 1975 by Gentry Books Limited." --Title page verso.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-86007-308-4 (Omega) : £1.95.
Table of contents: title: Gliding Apprenticeship; title: Becoming an Industrialist; title: Building in Quantity; title: Bankrupt. . .; title: 'A Nation of Aviators'; title: 1934-1936; title: 1937-1938; title: 1939; title: 1940; title: 1941; title: 1942; title: 1943; title: 1944; title: 1945; title: Appendices.