Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 On the Road to the Abyss 7
Chapter 2 Fighters with Propellers Yesterday's Aircraft 18
Chapter 3 New Hope Jet Fighters 39
Chapter 4 The 'People's Fighter' For the Defence of the Reich 66
Chapter 5 Jabos and Blitzbombers 82
Chapter 6 Cannon Fodder Aviator Training for Special Purposes 112
Chapter 7 The Waffen-SS Get Involved 125
Chapter 8 Midget Aircraft and Local Fighters 144
Chapter 9 Self-Sacrifice Operations Freiheit and Bienenstock 171
Chapter 10 Mistel Over the Eastern Front 189
Chapter 11 Last Trump of the Air Defence Flak Rockets 202
Chapter 12 Weakpoint Night Fighters? 223
Chapter 13 Wrecked Dreams Miracle Weapons 241
Chapter 14 Plans for a New Luftwaffe 248
Chapter 15 The Final Account 253
Index 258
