Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men Who Earned Them

 

The last of Neal O’Connor’s series covering the air awards and pilots of Imperial Germany. The eight German states appear first in alphabetical order: thus we find the Duchy of Brunswick leading off the discussion; the Grand Duchy of Hesse; the Principality of Hohenzollern; the Principalities of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe; the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz; and the Principality of Waldeck; and finally, the three Free Hanse Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck. Among the forty-three biographies included in this volume are: Oblt. Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, Lt. Erwin Böhme, Oblt. Maximilian von Cossel, Lt. Ludwig Fritz Dornheim, Lt. Emil Flörke, Offz.-Stv. Ludwig Friedewald, Rittm. Hans-Achim von Grone, Major Wilhelm Haehnelt, Lt. Franz von Kerssenbrock, Lt. Günther Ludeke, Lt. Friedrich Niederhöfer, Lt. Otto Parschau, Rittm. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, Lt. Karl-Emil Schäfer, Lt. Carl-August von Schoenebeck, Lt. Günther Schroth, Lt. Otto-Martin Graf von Schwerin, Offz.-Stv. Gottlieb Vothknecht, Lt. Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichard, and Oblt. Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch.

 

Neil W. O'Connor

Hardcover large format 528 pages, over 700 black and white photographs, 

 

Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men Who Earned Them

Book Code:  SC0769