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Black Fokker leader : Carl Degelow, the First World War's last airfighter knight
- Title
- Black Fokker leader : Carl Degelow, the First World War's last airfighter knight / Peter Kilduff.
- Author
- Kilduff, Peter.
- Publication
- London : Grub Street, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- 192 p. : ill., map, ports.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- One of the most noteworthy German fighter pilots of World War I was Leutnant der Reserve Carl Degelow, whose squadron of mostly black Fokker D.VII fighters posed a formidable threat to some of Britain's most celebrated air units on the Western Front.
- Subject
- Note
- Maps on end papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189) and index.
- Contents
- Life and death in the air -- Peace and war -- Over the front at last -- Becoming an eagle -- Early air fighting success -- The white stag flies -- The spring offensive and beyond -- Command in the air -- The tide of war turns -- Final glory of the Jagdstaffeln -- Homeward, home and reunion -- A turbulent future.
- Call Number
- JFF 10-617
- ISBN
- 9781906502287 (hbk.)
- 1906502285 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010290352
- OCLC
- YBP 2010290352
- Author
- Kilduff, Peter.
- Title
- Black Fokker leader : Carl Degelow, the First World War's last airfighter knight / Peter Kilduff.
- Imprint
- London : Grub Street, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 10-617