Gerhard Fieseler - Nigel Holden

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Résumé :
The life of Gerhard Fieseler: decorated First World War fighter pilot, world aerobatics champion, creator of the legendary Storch reconnaissance aircraft and builder of the V-1.

Biographie:
Nigel Holden is a retired business school professor who has worked in the UK, Germany and Denmark. His last appointment was as a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School. A widely-travelled management researcher and educator, he has given lectures and keynote addresses all over the world. Nigel has written and/or co-authored four books on culture and management in international business and has had published more than a hundred academic articles - as well as more than 30 book chapters - on his fields of specialisation: cross-cultural management, knowledge management, international marketing, management change in Russia and East/Central Europe, marketing in Japan, management terminology in various languages, intercultural business communication, talent management and business history. Gerhard Fieseler: The man behind the Storch is his first book in the field of military history....

Sommaire:
The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift - and even, in postwar British hands, a tool in helicopter design - it was linked to some of the best-known personages of the conflict: Hitler, Speer, Rommel, Mussolini, Churchill and Stalin. Furthermore, as Nigel Holden suggests in this first complete biography in English of Gerhard Fieseler (its creator), no other plane had a comparably equivalent role in that war.

Making use of Fieseler's own autobiography and other material never reproduced in English, Holden chronicles Fieseler's life against four distinct, interlocking German contexts: the Reich of the erratic Kaiser Wilhelm II...