Looking for a book...

[Reflected]

...that is:

 

-An autobiographie of a German 109 pilot

-who fought on the Eastern front

-preferably from 1942 onwards

-has a lot of descriptions about dogfights, and what it felt like to be a pilot there (the opposite of Galland's First and last)

-was translated to English

-can easily be bought on Amazon

 

Any recommendations?

 

Thanks in advance! 

 

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Have you seen this? It's free

 

http://www.walk77.com/dog/files/luftwaffe_fighter_ace.pdf

[sallee]

The War Diary of Helmut Lipfert and My Logbook by Gunther Rall might be a good start. Heinz Knoke was only in The Soviet Union at the beginning of the campaign, but it's a good read.

[sallee]

Oh, and a bit of a cheat because he's not German and it's not exactly the Eastern Front, but Double Fighter Knight by Ilmari Juutilainen otherwise fits the bill.

[Brano]

http://www.amazon.com/Graf-Grislawski-A-Pair-Aces/dp/0972106049

[FlatSpinMan]

This one is quite good.

 

From Amazon:

"Herr Norbert Hanning’s wartime career makes for fascinating and highly informative reading on an aspect of the 1939-45 air war not often covered in the English language; primarily that of the campaign against the Soviet Union.

He was one of the midwar-generation Luftwaffe fighter pilots and began operations with JG 54 on the eastern (Leningrad) front in early 1943..."

 

 

He flew the 190 and even the 262 for a bit and experienced life in the east plus the total collapse. He's quite a modest type of chap.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Luftwaffe-Fighter-Ace-Norbert-Hanning-ebook/dp/B004MYFJZQ

[SCG_Neun]

Good stuff here...from four aces....Eastern Front....fighting

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-German-Aces-Speak-Luftwaffes/dp/0760345902

 

The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots.

 

When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heaton’s and Anne-Marie Lewis’s masterful command of interview-based narrative, writing, “. . . what might have been numbing recitations of dogfights are instead vivid descriptions of life as a warrior during World War II.” Indeed, it is this unexpected perspective, brought to life by the authors’ neutrality and thoughtful research, that illuminates a side of war largely hidden from the American public: the experience of the German Luftwaffe pilot. In The German Aces Speak II, Heaton and Lewis paint a picture of the war through the eyes of four more of Germany’s most significant pilots—Johannes Steinhoff, Erich Alfred Hartmann, Guther Rall, and Dieter Hrabak—put together from numerous interviews personally conducted by Heaton from the 1980s through the 2000s. The four ex-Luftwaffe fighter aces bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war, their battles, their off-duty lives, their lives after the war, and, perhaps most importantly, how they felt about serving under the Nazi leadership of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. Together, the memories of the events captured in The German Aces Speak II continue one of today’s most unique World War II book series, unearthing a facet of the war that has gone widely overlooked for the American public.

[Sokol1]

Hanning's book is good ready, but dont describe "dogfights" - just mention kills.

To be fair are few lines about a Yak "red banner" that hold a entire Schwarm of German fighters in Leningrad front before all disengage and go home...

[SharpeXB]

Hey this should be a good one. "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel

 

http://www.amazon.com/Stuka-Pilot-Hans-Ulrich-Rudel-ebook/dp/B0054GLEUA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1434591168&sr=1-1&keywords=Rudel

[Sokol1]

 

Good stuff here...from four aces....Eastern Front....fighting

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-German-Aces-Speak-Luftwaffes/dp/0760345902

 

The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots.

 

When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heaton’s and Anne-Marie Lewis’s masterful command of interview-based narrative, writing, “. . . what might have been numbing recitations of dogfights are instead vivid descriptions of life as a warrior during World War II.” Indeed, it is this unexpected perspective, brought to life by the authors’ neutrality and thoughtful research, that illuminates a side of war largely hidden from the American public: the experience of the German Luftwaffe pilot. In The German Aces Speak II, Heaton and Lewis paint a picture of the war through the eyes of four more of Germany’s most significant pilots—Johannes Steinhoff, Erich Alfred Hartmann, Guther Rall, and Dieter Hrabak—put together from numerous interviews personally conducted by Heaton from the 1980s through the 2000s. The four ex-Luftwaffe fighter aces bring the past to life as they tell their stories about the war, their battles, their off-duty lives, their lives after the war, and, perhaps most importantly, how they felt about serving under the Nazi leadership of Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. Together, the memories of the events captured in The German Aces Speak II continue one of today’s most unique World War II book series, unearthing a facet of the war that has gone widely overlooked for the American public.

 

 

 

Samples of this book in Google Books - see the pag. 264

 

https://books.google.com.br/books?hl=pt-BR&id=vWL4AgAAQBAJ&q=dogfight#v=snippet&q=dogfight&f=false

[Reflected]

Thanks for all the recommendations. I will definitely buy "German Aces Speak II", and maybe Lipfert's War Diaries - this one is a bit too pricey though.

[Heliopause]

Reflected do you happen to know any english/german books of Hungarian (fighter)pilots?

[Reflected]

I don't know if Tibor Tobak's book about the Puma group has been translated or not. Their story is nothing short of fascinsting.

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Did you read the free PDF I posted?

 

I got the link from Leaf originally

[Reflected]

I found a French translation:

http://www.amazon.com/Tibor-Tobak/e/B00DHW3YF6

Emil, I'm reading it now, thank you!

[Cybermat47]

Hey this should be a good one. "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel

http://www.amazon.com/Stuka-Pilot-Hans-Ulrich-Rudel-ebook/dp/B0054GLEUA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1434591168&sr=1-1&keywords=Rudel

I'm sure that it's a great book, but don't forget that Rudel was an unrepentant Nazi. He was even friends with Josef Mengele.

 

Also, Douglas Bader wrote a foreword to Stuka Pilot. When he found out that Rudel was a Nazi, he didn't ask for the foreword to be removed. Sadly, given Bader's conduct after the war, I can't say I'm surprised.