Emmy award winning historian Bob carruthers compiled this comprehensive overview of the stuka dive-bomber. It draws heavily on post war interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and staff officers to produce a fascinating insight into the stuka at the tactical and operational level.

Also featured are rare English translations of articles are taken from the pages of Der Adler, the Luftwaffe’s in-house magazine. They provided an absorbing study, from a unique primary source, of the world of the Stuka and its pilots, and convey to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time.