GERMAN FIGHTER ACE ERICH HARTMANN

The life story of the most successful fighter pilot of all time, with 352 air combat victories, and who spent ten and a half years behind Russian barbed wire, surviving prison uprisings, hunger strikes, resistance against the NKVD and forced labour. After being released he was still mentally and physically fit enough to fly F-86 jet fighters in the post-World War II German Air Force. This large photograph album presents a man who wished to become a doctor, but whose fate it was to become and remain a soldier.