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NAZI WAR CORRESPONDENT BOOK ABOUT THE LUFTWAFFE DURING THE 1939 INVASION OF POLAND

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This is a fine linen hardcover example of Mit Bomben und MGs über Polen (With Bombs and Machine Guns above Poland) with its original 1940 dust jacket. The author Josef Grabler (1899-1941) was a PK-Kriegsberichter der Luftwaffe, a Nazi Air Force war correspondent, who died on 22 May 1941 during Operation Mercury, the battle for the Greek island of Crete.

The book is about the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, and the important role the Luftwaffe played in that speedy victory. The author interviewed military men involved in different areas and compiled the experiences in Mit Bomben und MGs über Polen. The different ‘stories’ are all indexed in the back of the book.

Above, Hitler during a visit to the front in Poland while greeting ethnic Germans who "luckily escaped Polish hordes"

This 80+ year old Nazi book is in very nice used condition with a “5th War Christmas on the Channel Coast” book plate on the front flyleaf. The spine is tight and the book has no odor. The original dust jacket has a few tape repairs on the INside.

The 5 x 7-½ inch hardcover book has more than 302 pages (the photo pages on glossy paper are not numbered). It was published by Verlag C. Bertelsmann of Gütersloh in 1940 and this example of Mit Bomben und MGs über Polen is from the 171,000 to 220,000 print run. The dust jacket design is by Richard Hess of Berlin.

Above, a former Condor Legion pilot now active in Poland wearing his Tyrolean hat in the cockpit!

Interspersed in the German language text are superb photos by war photographers (including Grabler) of Luftwaffe pilots on the ground preparing for flight and in the air, aerial pictures of bombs and bomb damage on the ground, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring with Luftwaffe pilots in the field, destroyed Polish airplanes and artillery, Luftwaffe ground crew members loading Brandbomben (incendiary bombs) into containers, a Stuka hit by Polish Flak, Hitler visiting the frontlines shaking hands with ethnic Germans, damaged Warsaw fortifications, Junkers transport planes, even a Spanienkämpfer (Condor legion pilot) wearing his Tyrolean hat in the cockpit of his airplane in Poland!

Have a look at other Third Reich books about the 'Polenfeldzug' for sale on USMBOOKS.com:

- "On the Victorious Road", a rare 1939 book about Hitler's travels through the war zone      in Poland by air and car

- the Nazi photo book Victory in the East with captions in three languages (including English)

- fine 1940 commemorative photos book of the 13th Army Corps in Poland

- "That was the War in Poland" Nazi photo documentary

- OKW photo report on the war in Poland

- a 1939 Nazi anti-Polish propaganda booklet