Fallschirmjäger!: A Collection of Firsthand Accounts and Diaries by German Paratrooper Veterans from the Second World War

by Greg Way

Paratroopers or Fallschirmj ger as they are known in German, were the elite parachute troops (Fallschirmtruppe) of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Although the Americans and Italians, and to a greater extent, the Russians had experimented with airborne troops, it was the Germans who pioneered vertical envelopment using parachute, glider-borne and air-landed troops to conduct successful airborne operations in the early stages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912866188
• ISBN13: 9781912866182
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.8"