Books with German fighter pilots testimonies from WW2

[lesnyborsuk]

Hello,

 

since I have read some books about ally fighter pilots, now I would love to read some concentrating on Luftwaffe side. I am not looking for historical cold facts, rather pilots testimonies, dogfights stories and some everyday reality.

 

Can you advise something?

The more is better because I am not English native, so I would try to find it in my spoken language :)

Thanks!

[javelina1]

I read this when I was a kid, and really enjoyed it.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Blond-Knight-Germany-biography-Hartmann/dp/0830681892/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388786761&sr=1-1&keywords=the+blond+knight+of+germany

[Vekkinho]

There's this one:

Heinz Knoke - I flew for the Fuhrer

https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=943273544&fbt=8011863-984222650

 

Easy reading, I got it, read it few times...I keep it in my toilet for occasional reading these days...

 

It's about and written by this fella:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Knoke

[javelina1]

and another... Marseille was a true aerial marksmen... could shoot down a plane with 15 rounds...

 

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Africa-Marseille-Luftwaffe-Dominated/dp/0760343934/ref=pd_rhf_gw_s_cp_1_VPW2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1KAY8EJR2W39CHGVCM4Y

[Vekkinho]

http://www.amazon.com/Jagdverband-44-Squadron-Experten-Aviation/dp/1846032946/ref=pd_sim_b_12

 

It's about first squadron equipped by Me-262. Sqn commander was Adolf Galland.

[Yurgon]

Adam Makos with Larry Alexander: A Higher Call. It's about a very unusual encounter above Germany and how the opposing pilots involved in it met decades later.

 

Franz Stigler's recollections in this book also include meeting the aforementioned Marseille and Galland and how he became a member of JV 44.

 

I can't praise this book enough. :thumbup:

[javelina1]

Adam Makos with Larry Alexander: A Higher Call. It's about a very unusual encounter above Germany and how the opposing pilots involved in it met decades later.

 

Franz Stigler's recollections in this book also include meeting the aforementioned Marseille and Galland and how he became a member of JV 44.

 

I can't praise this book enough. :thumbup:

 

good one! :thumbup:

[cichlidfan]

Adam Makos with Larry Alexander: A Higher Call. It's about a very unusual encounter above Germany and how the opposing pilots involved in it met decades later.

 

Franz Stigler's recollections in this book also include meeting the aforementioned Marseille and Galland and how he became a member of JV 44.

 

I can't praise this book enough. :thumbup:

 

Sitting on my Kindle as I type.

[PLP]

Look forward to reading these :book::thumbup:. Slightly off-topic, I found Pierre Clostermann's the big show to be the best fighter pilot's account of WWII by far (read it in french - it is superbly well written.)

[Mnemonic]

"Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel - best book I read about WW2 german pilot:

http://www.amazon.com/Stuka-Pilot-Hans-Ulrich-Rudel/dp/1908476877/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389052382&sr=1-1&keywords=Stuka+pilot

[lunaticfringe]

Galland himself- "The First and the Last".

[SNAFU]

The best book about and from a German fighter pilot of 2ndWW is IMO "Feindberührung" by Julius Meimberg,but it is written in german and I don´t think it will be translated any time soon, since the publisher is a small - but very good one. All books I have published by "269" were worth the read, but it only offers 2 books in english I am afraid.

 

http://www.neunundzwanzigsechs.de/main.php

 

"My Logbook" is not as good as "Feindberührung" IMO, but still a good read.It`s not only about his time in WW2, but also about the beginning of the Bundeswehr Luftwaffe involving the F-104G crisis.

[Griffin]

The War Diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert

[Hans-Joachim Marseille]

Robert Tate's excellent and extensive (though positively biased) work on Marseille.

Excerpts here; http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/hanstate.html

 

Edited January 7, 2014 by Hans-Joachim Marseille