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James S. Corum

Legion Condor 1936-39

The Luftwaffe develops Blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War

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The bombing of Guernica has become a symbol of Nazi involvement in the Spanish Civil War, but the extent of the German commitment is often underestimated. The Luftwaffe sent 20,000 officers and men to Spain from 1936 to 1939, and the Condor Legion carried out many missions in support of the Spanish Nationalist forces and played a lead role in many key campaigns of the war. Aircraft that would play a significant role in the combat operations of World War II (the Heinkel 11 bomber, the Me 109 fighter, and others) saw their first action in Spain, fighting against the modern Soviet fighters and bombers that equipped the Republican Air Force. Cond… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Turner, Graham (Illustr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4728-4007-3
  • EAN: 9781472840073
  • Produktnummer: 30619737
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 96 S.
  • Masse: H24.8 cm x B18.4 cm x D0.7 cm 314 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 16
  • Gewicht: 314

Über den Autor


Dr James Corum, PhD, teaches military history at Salford University, UK, having been dean of the Baltic Defence College 2009-2014. From 1991 to 2004, he was a professor at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. In 2005, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he held a Leverhulme Fellowship, and then an associate professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr Corum is the author of numerous books on military history, including The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform (1992); and The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940 (1997). He has also authored more than 60 major book chapters and journal articles on a variety of subjects related to air power and military history.

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