FIGHTER GENERAL Life of Adolf Galland WWII SIGNED RARE

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Offered is a very rare volume for the collector and student of World War II Aviation history FIGHTER GENERAL The Life of Adolf Galland by Colonel Raymond F. Toliverand Trevor J. Constable Introduction by General James H. Doolittle, USAF Ret. INSCRIBED and SIGNED (twice) by the subject of the book Signed under the frontispiece portraitInscribed and Signed on title page"To Clay warmest / with my best wishes / yours Dolfo""14. march 1990" AmPress Publishing, 1990Second Printing hard cover book in near fine condition, absolutely beautiful copy, nearly "as new". dust jacket, not price clipped, is very good plus, with lightest of edge wear, minor scuffing/rubbing, jacket is now protected in new Brodart Mylar sleeve 353 pages, including Index, Appendix. Illustrated throughout with historic black and white photographs. Adolf Galland began WWII as a lieutenant and squadron commander, flying biplanes. He ended the war as a Lieutenant General -- and was again a squadron commander -- flying Me-262 jets. In all of aviation hsitory htere is no comparable rise and fall by a fighter pilot. Galland's story is simultaneously that of the Luftwaffe Fighter Arm, in which he served from foundation to finish. FIGHTER GENERAL is a vivid account of a dynamic combat leader torn from the cockpit, and forced by mighty events to defend his country read more