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There Is No Defense. Such plain speak ing in Britain is most unfashionable. It represents a considerable victory, won in disregard of popular British opinion, for a group of professional strategists led by a famed airman: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Cotesworth Slessor...
...hrer Knows Best. A jerky mixture of airman's logbook and autobiography, Knoke's is the first full-dress narrative to appear in the U.S., told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime...
...over the Thames estuary, that he forgot to fire at the target. But he soon tasted blood in Russia, flying alongside Stuka bombers as they chopped up Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first reality of war. He flew 100 patrols over grey, faceless ocean, with scarcely a sight of the British Blenheim bombers that were ranging the German coast. "We all live together as airmen...
Knoke the German airman fought like a true professional. But what of Heinz Knoke, German citizen? In his first chapter, he comments that his old allegiance, the Hitler Youth, "eventually became intolerable because of failure to apply correctly . . . the fundamental principles of National Socialism." He ends his story on something like the same note: "The war is lost ... It is useless for us to trouble ourselves now over such academic questions as responsibility and war guilt...
Charles A. Lindbergh, a greying 52 and still a working airman, sold the movie rights to his bestselling The Spirit...