Photographic History of Airborne Warfare, 1939-1945

A pictorial account of the development and implementation of airborne forces during World War II.On ten May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice. Improved parachutes and the creation of gli...