Series: History of Military Aviation

Goering's Ground Troops provides a revealing history of Hermann Goering's desperate creation of twenty-two Luftwaffe Field Divisions—air force personnel hastily repurposed as infantry and sent to the Eastern Front with disastrous results. Michael J. Stout delivers the first full account of these ill-fated units, exposing their role in the collapse of Nazi military effectiveness. In September 1942, with German armies...