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Floyd Gibbons: The Red Knight of Germany. The Story of Baron von Richthofen The "Red Baron" has become an enduring and popular symbol—from mass media ad campaigns to comic strips—of the devil-may-care aerial gallantry which ruled the skies of the Great War. This despite the roots of the real Red Baron, Freiherr Manfred von Richthofen, in the proud German Junker class, the enemy Americans learned to "love to hate" during and after the war. Who was this legend really, and how did he—not Rickenbacker or Guynemer, Hawker or McCudden—become the deathless embodiment of the fighter ace of the First World War? Floyd Gibbons' classic biography, first published only nine years after the guns fell silent, reveals the man—flesh and blood, heart and soul—behind the myth. Working form original documents, including letters and journals entrusted to him by von Richthofen's mother, Gibbons recreates, through the pen of the Red Baron, how it must have been in the dogfights above the trenches, on the ground in the desperate, nonchalant camaraderie of men whose every flight might be their last, and in the highest councils of the German state and military. The Red Knight of Germany itemizes and documents every mission, every victory, of this prodigy of aerial combat, in matchless writing worthy of its mighty hero. Who was the Red Baron? Read this book and know: "He shot down eighty fighting planes. He matched his life against that of any man. He fought, not with hate, but with love for fighting. It was his joy, his sport, his passion. To him to dare and to die was to live ..." "He won the admiration and respect of his enemies. His instinct and duty it was to kill them, he did ..." "Wounded and decorated, he became the guest of kings and queens. Boys and the youth of a nation made him their idol, cheered him, followed him on the street." "He was young and blond, shy and handsome, proud and serious. Girls by the thousands worshipped his picture and filled his mail with letters by the sackful. One of them he loved. He wanted to make her his wife but he did not want to make her his widow. He knew he was going to be killed." "In one of the greatest air battles in the history of the world, he went down, still fighting, still killing. He died a national hero at the head of the fighting men in the service of his country. He was buried by his enemies with respect and military honors in unstinted recognition of his great courage, his sportsmanship, and his tireless, relentless spirit." "His name was Manfred von Richthofen." |
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383
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6.5x9.5", hc
(Nov. 1991)
, ISBN:
093948238X
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