ROCKET FIGHTER: The Story of the Messerschmitt Me163 by Mano Ziegler 1961

ROCKET FIGHTER: The Story of the Messerschmitt Me163

by Mano Ziegler
translated by Alexander Vanags
foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Adolf Galland

DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 083681619
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Arms and Armour Press 1961, English edition 1976
Size (mm): 165 w x 230 h x 25 d
Pages: 161
SKU: A5/2504/0633/B920

ABOUT
The development and history of the of the world's first operational rocket-powered interceptor, the Messerschmitt Me163.

The Me163 was developed and tested by the Germans in absolute secrecy. As the Second World War drew to a close the Luftwaffe high command pinned its last desperate hopes on this deadly new flying machine.

Mano Ziegler, one of the few men to survive the Me 163's initiation in battle, tells the story of the brave pilots pushed to the limits of physical endurance --- men who, bound by duty and driven by courage, experienced high-altitude velocities and air pressures no human body had ever before endured.

CONDITION
Immaculate with only light wear on clipped dust jacket and faint marks on page edges, otherwise as new. Images depict all need to know detail.

REMARKS
Scarce
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