Название: The Rise of the Luftwaffe, 1918-1940
Автор: Herbert Molloy Mason
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1539898709
Год: 2016
Формат: MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv)
Страниц: 277
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the winter of 1918, Germany’s conquerors set about rendering the Reich forever incapable of waging war.
The existing German Air Service of nearly 15,000 planes was to be scrapped - the treaty of Versailles would ensure that no military aircraft would ever be flown in Germany again.
But less than a generation later Europe shook before the threat of the Luftwaffe, believed to be the most powerful air force in the world.
The Rise of the Luftwaffe tells how it happened.
Denied warplane factories and flying schools in their homeland, the Germans built them in Russia and it was there that they trained an elite pilot corps.
At home state-sponsored gliding schemes gave a new generation of pilots their first taste of the air, and clandestine factories, ostensibly making perambulators or washing machines, turned out warplanes.