Hermann Goering: Blumenkrieg - from Vienna to Prague 1938-39 (Volume 4)

Author(s): Blaine Taylor 

ISBN: 9781625450364
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Hermann Goering played a key role with the Luftwaffe in forcing the Allies to allow Nazi bloodless territorial seizures throughout Europe.


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  • Full saga of his remarkable biography with photographs from other captured Nazi pictorial sources

  • Anecdotes from first-person memoirs, reports, diaries and autobiographies help identify a fascinating if brutal human saga

  • Superbly illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs from Hermann Goering’s personal albums reveal his life story as never before


The year 1938–39 was when Hitler set out on the road of pre-war bloodless conquests, which led to the actual shooting combat over Poland in September 1939. Both willing and unwilling, Hermann Goering was his main acolyte in achieving the peaceful military occupations of Austria and the Czech–German Sudetenland in 1938, followed by that of Bohemia and Moravia.

Prior to this, Goering played perhaps the key role in the Nazi overthrow of the Third Reich’s conservative military and foreign services, being named field marshal as his reward. A major factor in making the Allies back down to Germany at the infamous Munich Pact Conference, Goering’s Luftwaffe was the key bargaining chip that gained these unprecedented territorial acquisitions for Hitler—all without a shot being fired. He also helped achieve alliances with Fascist Slovakia and Italy. The year 1938 also witnessed Goering’s role in the aftermath of the Kristallnacht action against German Jews that was a notable way station on the road to the Holocaust.


BOOK ISBN 9781625450364
FORMAT 248 x 172 mm
BINDING Hardback
PAGES 320 pages
PUBLICATION DATE 15 November 2017
TERRITORY World
ILLUSTRATIONS 280 black-and-white photographs

 

 






Blaine Taylor is an American author of eleven histories on war, politics, automotives, biography, engineering, architecture, medicine, photography and aviation. This well-read historian is a former Vietnam War soldier and military policeman under enemy fire; political and crime newspaper reporter; award-winning medical journalist; international magazine writer; winner of four political campaigns as a press secretary; and was a US Congressional aide on Capitol Hill, Washington, from 1991 to 1992.

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