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The last of Neal O'Connor's series covering the air awards and pilots of Imperial Germany. The eight German states appear first in alphabetical order: thus we find the Duchy of Brunswick leading off the discussion; the Grand Duchy of Hesse; the Principality of Hohenzollern; the Principalities of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe; the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz; and the Principality of Waldeck; and finally, the three Free Hanse Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck. Among the forty-three biographies included in this volume are: Oblt. Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, Lt. Erwin Bohme, Oblt. Maximilian von Cossel, Lt. Ludwig Fritz Dornheim, Lt. Emil Florke, Offz.-Stv. Ludwig Friedewald, Rittm. Hans-Achim von Grone, Major Wilhelm Haehnelt, Lt. Franz von Kerssenbrock, Lt. Gunther Ludeke, Lt. Friedrich Niederhofer, Lt. Otto Parschau, Rittm. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, Lt. Karl-Emil Schafer, Lt. Carl-August von Schoenebeck, Lt. Gunther Schroth, Lt. Otto-Martin Graf von Schwerin, Offz.-Stv. Gottlieb Vothknecht, Lt. Friedrich-Wilhelm Wichard, and Oblt. Heinz-Hellmuth von Wuhlisch.O'Connor, Neal W. is the author of 'Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in WWI and the Men Who Earned Them, Vol. 7' with ISBN 9780764316265 and ISBN 0764316265.
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