The Straits of Messina: Diary of a Fighter Commander by Johannes Steinhoff Size:Pocket-Sized Paperback: Against this background of a

Against this background of a young country struggling to find its own identity

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The Straits of Messina: Diary of a Fighter Commander by Johannes Steinhoff Size:Pocket-Sized Paperback: Against this background of aTHE STRAITS OF MESSINA Johannes Steinhoff writes of great events with epic simplicity; the narrative follows him through eight crucial days in the struggle for Sicily locked in combat with the RAF, drinking in the evenings with his men in their bomb proof grotto, coping with the hysterical commands reaching him intermittently from Goring and it lingers on his revealing descriptions of the German fighter pilot and his Messerschmitt 109 in the days when