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Title details for The Red Knight of Germany--The Story of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird [Illustrated Edition] by Floyd Gibbons - Available

The Red Knight of Germany--The Story of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird [Illustrated Edition]

by Floyd Gibbons
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[16 Illustrations, portraits of the author, author's unit and plane.]
In the small city of Wiesbaden in southwest Germany, a small headstone proclaims that the incumbent of its grave is Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. Small fanfare and panoply for the far-famed and feared Red Baron; a hunter even during his childhood, he took to the skies above France and Flanders in 1915 following service as a cavalry officer. In the air he hunted his prey, almost exclusively British pilots, and by the time of his death in 1918 was credited with some 80 air combat victories. He was only 25 at the time of his death.
American author Floyd Gibbon's biography seeks to give a fuller and more realistic portrait of Manfred von Richthofen than is widely known; to his German countryman he seemed to be a superhuman hero of the skies; to the Allies who opposed him, he seemed a ruthless bogeyman. The truth is far more complex than this as the author explains in great detail, using von Richthofen's own autobiography and other contemporary sources in order to produce a portrait of the greatest World War One Ace.
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Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

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  • Release date: June 13, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781782891871
  • File size: 6317 KB
  • Release date: June 13, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781782891871
  • File size: 6317 KB
  • Release date: June 13, 2014

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History Nonfiction

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[16 Illustrations, portraits of the author, author's unit and plane.]
In the small city of Wiesbaden in southwest Germany, a small headstone proclaims that the incumbent of its grave is Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. Small fanfare and panoply for the far-famed and feared Red Baron; a hunter even during his childhood, he took to the skies above France and Flanders in 1915 following service as a cavalry officer. In the air he hunted his prey, almost exclusively British pilots, and by the time of his death in 1918 was credited with some 80 air combat victories. He was only 25 at the time of his death.
American author Floyd Gibbon's biography seeks to give a fuller and more realistic portrait of Manfred von Richthofen than is widely known; to his German countryman he seemed to be a superhuman hero of the skies; to the Allies who opposed him, he seemed a ruthless bogeyman. The truth is far more complex than this as the author explains in great detail, using von Richthofen's own autobiography and other contemporary sources in order to produce a portrait of the greatest World War One Ace.
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History Nonfiction