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Max Immelmann was the first pilot to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany’s highest military honor. This new Casemate edition has been entirely reoriginated. Not a word has been changed, but the original type and page layout have been reworked, as has been the format, to give a beautiful new treatment to this aviation literature classic.
Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot
by Hanna Reitsch
Translated by Lawrence Wilson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781932033977
Publisher: Casemate
Pub Date: 2009-03-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Casemate
272 Pages
The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War test pilot - Hanna Reitsch (March 29, 1912 - August 24, 1979). As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Germany's latest (and increasingly desperate) designs, including the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, and several larger bombers on which she
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