GERMAN FIGHTERS IN WORLD WAR II – THE NIGHT FIGHTERS

This book is an attempt to tell the story of the German night fighter arm through photographs. Through painstaking efforts the authors have assembled more than five hundred photos.

It would not be entirely accurate to describe the night fighters as lone hunters, because many hundreds of men worked in the command posts and at the airfields, their only purpose to bring the night fighter to a position from which it could successfully engage the enemy.

This was an understanding which did not always succeed. Often the night fighter pilot had to depend on himself and his crew, and during the final stages of an interception success depended on them alone.

Although the hunters increasingly became the hunted as the war progressed, the successes of the night fighters grew steadily as did their casualties their efforts are portrayed through the use of original photographs, many of them never before published.-500 rare photographs illustrate this story of the German night fighter arm  from its inception to its final defeat. An authentic work with much background material.