Bergström, Christer/Sundin, Claes (Illustr.) Graf & Grislawski. Zwei Jagdflieger-Asse

Written by Christer Bergström in collaboration with Alfred Grislawski and M. H. H. Wägenbauer, profiles by Claes Sundin. Major Hermann Graf, the "football saviour" who, after a meeting with Sepp Herberger in 1943, saved the life of Fritz Walter, who was lying in southern Italy with severe malaria, by personally approaching the Reich Marshal to get his alleged cousin into his fighter squadron. One day later, Fritz Walter was flown out in a Ju 52 and transferred to Graf in the Reich. Hermann Graf, who helped Jews/Jewish families to escape at great personal risk. Hermann Graf, who was the first fighter pilot in the world to achieve 200 aerial victories. And this in only 13 months, no other fighter pilot has ever achieved this again. Hermann Graf, who at the end of the war, despite orders to leave, voluntarily stayed with his squadron members and even went into captivity twice with the many Wehrmacht members of other units who had joined him in the meantime. Alfred Grislawski, first Graf's Rottenflieger, but then started his own successful fighter pilot career and, as a veteran first sergeant, simply took the liberty of giving Lieutenant Erich Hartmann the epithet "Bubi"!

The first German-language edition has been considerably expanded. Also sensational is Hermann Graf's bequest of documents, uniforms and orders, which is presented here in detail and in colour.