BOOK REVIEW : AN EAGLE'S ODYSSEY.

This new book was recently found in The Works at a very reasonable price. The book covers the military career of a pilot in the Luftwaffe from his joining in 1935 right through to the end of the war. The author was highly skilled given the years of peace time training he enjoyed before the war. During the war he was initially an instructor then he piloted transport aircraft then he moved to ground attack planes before flying single engined interceptors against US bombing missions over Germany before going back to ground attack against the Russians at the very end of the war. The  thing that strikes me  is the remarkable way he transferred from plane type to plane type each with a totally different mission purpose with no particular difficulty. It seems that once trained to fly he could more or less do anything, perhaps a reflection on the quality of his initial training as much as his personal qualities. A good book with excellent descriptions of combat flying in the Luftwaffe but not a single comment whatsoever on the politics of the time, an interesting omission.