You Up There - We Down Here: Schoolboys Deployed as Anti-Aircraft Gun Assistants

by Thomas Anderson and Gerhard Oberleitner

The author describes his experiences as a Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft Assistant 1944-1945: "It was simply a question of us fifteen to sixteen-year olds manning the anti-aircraft guns on the ground defending ourselves against the airmen in the bombers and fighters 20 000 feet above our heads." Letters, reports, documents and above all, the author's complete diary and photographs that do so much to authenticate this time capsule. He describes how it was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3952296872
• ISBN13: 9783952296875
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: History Facts
• Length: 270 Pages