Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Ground Attack & Special Purpose Aircraft

Herwig, Dieter

ISBN 10: 1857801504 / ISBN 13: 9781857801507

Published by Midland Publishing Ltd., 2004

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272pp. (grey spine) 4to. large sized. 2003. First English language edition. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. Original publisher's grey boards - silver embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions in colour, colour illustrations and line drawings. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. No inscriptions. Some spotting to the upper fore-edge. The jacket has not been price-clipped - it has some spotting to the verso and an expertly repaired nick to the tail of the front panel. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Ground Attack & Special Purpose Aircraft
• Publisher: Midland Publishing Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857801504
• ISBN 13: 9781857801507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 44 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Air Warfare WWII

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Synopsis

The two previous volumes in this hugely popular series have covered Fighters 1939-1945 and Strategic Bombers 1935-1945. This new addition takes a close look at a varied range of aircraft types, principally described as ground-attack and special-purpose types, but which includes Kampfzerstorer (multi-purpose combat aircraft), multi-purpose and fast bombers, explosive-carrying aircraft intended to attack other aircraft, air-to-air ramming vehicles, bomb-carrying gliders and towed fighters, and airborne weapons and special devices (rockets, cannons, flame-throwers, etc.) As in the first two volumes, the technical descriptions and histories of about 140 aircraft types are brought to life by many specially created full-color artworks, showing the projects, often in unit markings, as they might have appeared if they had come to fruition and/or if the war had continued beyond 1945. This series has proven indispensable for historians and notably for modelers, whose imaginations are fired up by these revelations.

About the Author

Dieter Herwig, born in 1926, was called up for service with the Luftwaffen-Lehrregiment at Berlin-Gatow, on the strength of his earlier flying training. By the war's end he had been posted to Berlin-Adlershof, where he was a member of staff of the Chief of Aircraft Procurement and Supply's Central Scientific Records Office for Aviation Research (ZWB), which was subordinated to the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium (RLM). After the war he published Germany's first specialized aviation periodical, Aero Magazin, and many other works. Dieter Herwig has built up one of the largest aviation collections in Germany and heads the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luftfahrtdokumentation (German Association for Aviation Documentation) and the Deutsches Studienbüro für Luftfahrt (German Aviation Study Bureau) in Frankfurt am Main. Heinz Rode, born in Berlin in 1932, has been a freelance graphic designer and press artist for more than 30 years. He is also an illustrator of non-fiction historical books. His special interests are aviation and space. Among his other works, he has produced several hundred titles and covers for books, films, specialist magazines, catalogs and newspapers. The fine color illustrations in this book are all products of his talent and brush.