The rise and fall of the Luftwaffe : the life of Luftwaffe Marshall Erhard Milch / David Irving

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xx, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-348) and index. Contents; Part I: Air power conserved. Death of a rich uncle, death of a rich aunt (March 1892-January 1933) ; The Luftwaffe reborn (January 1933-May 1937) ; More bluff than blood (July 1937-September 1939) -- Part II: World war too soon. The rainmaker (September 1939-May 1940) ; A question of time (May-July 1940) ; 'If eight million go mad . . .' (July-December 1940) ; A new campaign (December 1940-June 1941) ; Exit a hero (June-November 1941) -- Part III: The Augean stables. New broom (November 1941-March 1942) ; No such, word as 'impossible' (March-June 1942) ; The dead racehorse (June-October 1942) ; None so blind (October-December 1942) -- Part IV: Special mission : Stalingrad. 'Panama!' (January-February 1943) ; Total war (February-March 1943) -- Part V: The year of the clenched teeth. Terror raids (March-May 1943) ; 'As though an angel's pushing' (May-July 1943) ; A wreath upon our coffin (July-September 1943) ; Defence of the Reich (September-October 1943) ; Life-or-death questions (October 1943) ; 'Who needs Messerschmitt?' (October-December 1943) -- Part VI: 'Crashed in flames'. Fighter staff (January-April 1944) ; Breaking-point (April 1944-May 1945) -- Part VII: Judgement at Nuremberg. In allied hands (May 1945-November 1946) ; On trial for his life (November 1946-April 1947) ; Epilogue: A disclosure (April 1947-January 1972). Subjects; Milch, Erhard (1892-1972). Milch, Erhard Studies. Germany. Luftwaffe Studies. World War II, (1939-1945) Aerial operations, German. Military operations, Aerial German. Marshals Germany ; Biography. Biography. Service Aviation - Foreign Air Forces. Holocaust denial. Revisionist history. Germany History (1933-1945). Germany Luftwaffe Milch, Erhard Biographies. Biographies. Germany. Luftwaffe. Milch, Erhard. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated.