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Black Fokker Leader

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One of the most noteworthy German fighter pilots of World War I was Leutnant der Reserve Carl Degelow, whose squadron of mostly 
black Fokker D.VII fighters posed 
a formidable threat to some of Britain's most celebrated air units on the Western Front. 
Degelow had a unique approach to aerial combat which fascinated the author, Peter Kilduff, so much that in 1979 he wrote 
Germany's Last Knight of the Air about his exploits, a book long out of print. During the intervening 30 years Kilduff 
has obtained new information and original photos, plus copies of significant German archival material and documentation 
which shed much new light on this legendary ace. 
Black Fokker Leader is a completely new work with unpublished material about Degelow and his comrades - how he was almost 
court-martialled; how his career was saved by Carl Josef Jacobs; how Degelow helped Willy Rosenstein escape from Nazi Germany, 
and much more. Plus new insights into men like Field Marshal Erhard Milch, Degelow's wing commander in WWI; and V-2 rocket 
chief General Hans Jeschonnek, a Degelow protege in 1918. 
Presented in the acclaimed author's objective, well-sourced manner, there will also be a wealth of British, 
French and Belgian documentation to counter-balance German claims.