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David Irving’s biography follows Hermann Göring from his career as a First World War fighter pilot to his role in Nazi Germany and his trial at Nuremberg. It draws on personal papers and wartime records. This hardback edition examines his political and military career.
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This edition is offered as historical source material for research, study, and private collection. Irving Books does not endorse National Socialism, racial hatred, antisemitism, political violence, or unlawful discrimination. Some material reflects the language and ideology of its period and is presented for historical understanding.
Historical Material Policy ->This biography traces Hermann Göring from his First World War service through his role in the National Socialist state, including the Luftwaffe, the Gestapo's early development, wartime administration, art plunder, and the Nuremberg proceedings.
The edition draws on diaries, private correspondence, archival records, photographs, maps, and footnotes to document Göring's position inside Hitler's Germany and the collapse of the Third Reich.
For readers of modern military history and Third Reich studies, the book is presented as a detailed biographical and archival study.
Author: David Irving
ISBN: 9798994517543
Format: Hardcover Case Wrap, Matte
Paper Background: Cream
639 pages
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David Irving is a renowned British historian and author of over 30 books. Known for his meticulous primary source research, he has spent decades in archives across the globe, unearthing diaries, documents, and first-hand accounts that have reshaped our understanding of the Second World War and its key figures.
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