Olham 164 Posted May 16, 2010 (edited) I'm just reading an old book from 1939: "Malaula! Der Kampfruf meiner Staffel" by Julius Buckler, Jasta 17. Never saw a newer release of this book in German, but now I found it in AMAZON in English. Norman Franks seems to do a lot on that field; he even publishes German books, we don't get here at all. http://www.amazon.co...a/dp/1904943802 Edited May 16, 2010 by Olham Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scouseair68 0 Posted May 17, 2010 Great find Olham. What do you think of it so far? Scouseair Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted May 17, 2010 It is written in a funny style, with quite some humorous self-criticism. You realise, how much simpler people thought about many things, how comradery and friendship were held high; how they enjoyed just to get some better food than the average soldiers or the people back home, suffering under the war circumstances. He describes, how there were no fighter training schools in the early days; how they had to just find out themselves. What he does quite well, is to describe conflicting emotions. For example, when he gets his first Albatros D II and encounters a single, unescorted Farman. How he first gets into the hunting fever, doing everything wrong and under dangerous circumstances, how he finally gets the craft down, but with no witness. He lands at his previous recon Staffel field and really gets them to fly to the crash site to make a photograph to proof his first victory. And then, when he flies back to base alone, he feels like s**t, cause he has killed two boys, who also had families, mothers, girlfriends - and today is the 24th of December... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
