Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe, Macksey, Kenneth. Published by Frontline Books, 2012. Card covers. 262pp. with maps and 16 pages of contemporary photo illustrations. In fine, unread condition.
Kesselring-commander, leader, administrator; the only senior German officer to start and finish the Second World War holding a high command appointment. There was scarcely a major campaign in which he was not at some time deeply involved: he flew in the forefront of the battle over Poland, Holland, Britain, Russia and the Western Desert and was shot down five times; as a field commander he defended Tunisia, Italy and, ultimately, Germany. But it is as much for his role in the formation and development of the Luftwaffe that Kesselring is remembered-his were many of the ideas, plans and insights about the part played by aircraft in the land battle.
