Göring. A Biography

 army commanders is a Caesar or an Alexander,” he continued. “But they all know their job and do their duty. They just need t ...

 North Africa... What might the enemy do next? They may land in Sardinia, that won’t cause any problems; possibly Sicily. The ...

 vism triumphs!... We cannot say how much use the European nations will be. Spain perhaps; France, torn inside out, won’t hel ...

 an arresting kimono of violet-colored silk for dinner. A dia- mond-studded brooch graced his neck, a bejeweled belt his paun ...

   Jet-Propelled Göring’s air force had airlifted into Stalingrad , tons of supplies, a daily average of  ton ...

 glazed than usual this day. Depressed by the austerity of Berlin, Göring retired to his villa on the Obersalzberg. Pili Körn ...

 that the Fascist dictator wrote to Hitler a few days later, it is clear that the Italians were again begging Nazi Germany to ...

 on medieval Nuremberg. Hitler had Bodenschatz fetched out of bed and raged at him. Twenty-four hours later Munich was the Br ...

 speak of the ‘enemy’ now, I am referring only to the enemy in the west.” “The most modest requirement,” he shrieked at Messe ...

 crates,’ ” he mimicked. “Aircraft so big you could lay out a dance floor in them!” He rounded on General Wolfgang Martini, t ...

 ready,” he ordered designer shoes from Perugia for little Edda’s birthday, and he drove down to Munich with Emmy to buy ex- ...

 Bournemouth. On one night, May –, the British effortlessly dropped over two thousand tons of bombs on Dortmund in the Ru ...

   Exit Jeschonnek On the night that Colonel Galland saw Göring about the Me , RAF Bomber Command thumped two tho ...

 ensive at Kursk. A surviving handwritten notebook kept by Göring in those months reveals how extensively his horizon was clo ...

 cans’ ”tight squadron formation” tactics. “How come the Brit- ish,” he wrote, “can operate their bombers by day, with or wit ...

 starting the blitz on Britain. In March  alone, KG, based in Holland, had lost twenty-six crews. Over the following mon ...

 tank offensive at Kursk, Göring lingered on at his nearby mountain villa, sitting in his white uniform in the sunshine or st ...

 more psychological than real, because the cure that Göring contemplated was giving Jeschonnek command of a Luftflotte (the F ...

 enough for Hitler. Perhaps at Martin Bormann’s suggestion  because the latter entered it in his diary  Hitler called in al ...

 radar at all. The enemy bombers were clearly silhouetted against clouds lit by the fires, flares, flashes, and flak from ben ...