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Autobiography of WW2 Nazi pilot Hans Rudel the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich's most prestigious medal which was specially created for Rudel by Hitler himself, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Shot down over 24 times, Hans Rudel is credited with destroying over 500 tanks, 2,000 ground targets, the Russian battleship Marat, two cruisers and a destroyer, and was so successful against Russian forces that Joseph Stalin put up a 100,000 rouble ransom on his head. His flying record of over 2,500 missions remains unmatched by any pilot since. Until his death in 1982 Hans Rudel remained a loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler, and he refused to denounce Hitler, or the Nazis, and believed that the war against Germany was created by powerful Jews and international finance. Hans Rudel remains a complex character, and arguably one of WW2's most heroic figures. This is the uncensored edition first published by his friend the British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley in 1948, and includes maps and photographs.
- Sales Rank: #156640 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Black House Publishing Ltd
- Published on: 2012-05-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .63" w x 5.51" l, .79 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 280 pages
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112 of 117 people found the following review helpful.
"Only he is lost, who gives himself up as lost...."
By M. G Watson
When I was 11 years old, back in 1984 or so, my Dad bought me this book in of one of those overpriced airport bookstores, probably to shut me up. Now it is 2004, and that same book, beat to all hell, sits on a bookshelf in my apartment. In the intervening 20 years I have probably read it once every year, faithfully, and it never disappoints. It was written in a different age, an extinct age, when it was possible for men to be great, and believe absolutely in their causes, and if it seems dated, that is probably a harsher judgement against us than it is against the author. It is not a political book, it has no "world view" and its only philosophy is the maxim of its author: you surrender when you die.
Hans-Ulrich Rudel was the only son of a Silesian minister. An awkward boy, frightened of thunderstorms, addicted to athletics, a bit of a misfit, he was hardly the Aryan ideal. Pictures of him show a guy who looks more like Mandy Patinkin than Robert Shaw. As a young man he eschewed girls and beer in favor of sport, was considered a "queer fish" and found himself to be such a slow learner at flying that he spent the first two years of World War II gathering dust, deemed unfit for combat. On top of all of that, he found himself stuck flying the antiquated, ugly-duckling dive bomber known to history as the "Stuka" rather than the sleek fighter plane he had envisoned himself in as a kid, jumping out of his parent's second-floor window holding an umbrella. Not an auspicious beginning.
Rudel was a classic example of a man making up for lost time. When he finally flew his first combat missions, in the fall of 1941, he took out all the frustration of being viewed as "unfit" on the Soviet army, who over the next four years learned to fear and hate the very sight of him, the very mention of his name. He was as much a boogeyman to the USSR as von Richtoften (the Red Baron) had been to the French and English twenty years previously. He was the man they could not kill, the man who came screaming out of the sky again and again from Leningrad to Stalingrad, hurling bombs and cannon shells and machine-gun fire down on them from an outdated old machine, killing without mercy and without pause, immune to fear, immune to pain, immune to wounds, fatigue, despair and the odds.
How much of a bad-arse was Rudel? Well, let's put this in perspective. At the height of the air-war over Germany in 1943, it was considered a statistical improbability that a bomber pilot could survive 25 missions. Chuck Yeager, one hell of a fine combat pilot and tough, gutsy, ornery human being, shot down 12 German planes and flew about fifty-odd missions as a fighter jock. Tommy McGuire and Dick Bong, America's top aces of WWII, shot down 78 (confirmed) Japanese planes between them. Rudel, on the other hand, flew over 2,000 combat missions, blew up 519 Soviet tanks, sank the Soviet battleship "Marat" and a cruiser of 10,000 tons displacement, bagged numerous enemy fighters, and won so many medals that several had to be struck specifically for him, including his 2,000 sortie medal and the Golden oakleaves to his Knights Cross, of which he was the only recipient. During that time he was shot down six times behind enemy lines, took a bullet in the shoulder, a bullet in the leg and had another leg blown clean off....and kept flying. He kept flying despite orders not to fly, kept flying even when he had to work his control pedals with a cane, and when Germany finally surrendered, he refused to give up to the Soviets and had his entire squadron land on an American air base, "pancaking" their aircraft so the Yanks couldn't get their hands on them. In interrogations he was so arrognat (he insisted on behaving as if he were still in command, including giving and recieiving the Nazi salute) that he was written off as a "typical Nazi officer" but responded with the classic comeback, "Can't you see, I never fought for a political party, only for Germany?"
Rudel's fight never really ends. Defeat, to him, comes at the moment of death, and the war did not kill him. Therefore, the war goes on. And on. And on.
"Stuka Pilot" is written in a sort of battlefield-telegraph style, terse and spartan. Rudel is not a writer, but he has the occasional ability to comminicate more than the sum of his flight log entries. The most teasing parts of the book are his glimpses into the famous figures of history he met and worked with: Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Ribbentrop, Skorzeny, Riefenstahl, Speer, etc. If it has a drawback, it is that he doesn't spend near enough time fleshing his personal relationships out.
Of course, it can be argued that without men like Rudel fighting and killing for him, Adolf Hitler would have been rendered harmless, a lunatic ranting on a streetcorner; and a case could be made that Rudel and his ilk "empowered" the homidical Fuhrer to do what he did. But according to Shakespeare, the other half of the argument goes like this: "If the cause be not good, our allegience to the king wipes the crime of it clean." Rudel fought for his country with every fiber of his being, and if he never once stopped to consider the rightness of what his country was doing, it does not make his story less inspiring. This was a man who should have passed the war peeling potatoes, and ended up as the greatest pilot of all time. As Rudel says: "All one needs is a break."
124 of 132 people found the following review helpful.
L'Audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace
By The Sanity Inspector
Considered on purely military grounds, the heroes of Nazi Germany's armed forces were as remarkable as the best fighting men anywhere. Fighter aces such as Adolf Galland, panzer commanders such as Michael Wittmann, generals such as Erwin Rommell, all enjoyed the unfeigned respect of friend and foe alike. The soldierly virtues of boldness, duty, martial skill, and dash transcended national and ideological boundaries.
The most highly decorated man on the German side during World War II was Hans-Ulrich Rudel, stuka pilot, and this picture biography is a 277 page long valentine to him. He comes across as quite an alpha male in these pages. His lust for life brought him success in his military career, and his postwar mountaineering and sporting competitions.
Now, if you're here, you probably already know the background of Rudel's weapon of choice, the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka divebomber. By the time the war started it was already obsolescent, beginning to be outclassed by fighters entering service with the Western allies. But in the early going it was the very outward and visible sign of Nazi hyper-aggression. The black crooked-wing craft even looked somewhat like a flying swastika. The whine of its propeller and the screech of its dive siren triggered terror in its victims. Though the Stuka was soon driven from the skies of the Western front, it served in the East as a most capable ground attack airplane right up to the very end of the war. Rudel's Stuka was equipped with 3.7 cm flak cannons, to make it a feared _panzerknacker_, or tank buster.
This book relates in minute detail Rudel's many accomplishments. He and his squadron single-handedly beat back a Soviet armored assault. He rescued the crew of a downed Stuka from under the noses of the advancing Red Army. He was himself downed behind enemy lines and got back to his base in a masterpiece of evasion and escape. He even lost part of a leg and kept flying, was officially grounded and kept flying clandestinely. He finished the war with upwards of 2,500 combat missions, 500 tank kills, and one sunk battleship to his credit--an amazing feat given that he flew a slow, out-of-date aircraft in a theater where the enemy enjoyed air superiority from about 1944 onwards. Thank God his side lost, but the man deserved all the praise he got.
The latter third of the book deals with his postwar career as an adventurer masquerading as an industrial salesman. While "alive and well and living in Argentina" he schmoozed with the Perons, climbed the world's highest volcano three times, and got in some high-diving--all this with one leg, remember. Curiously, the book makes no mention and includes no pictures of Rudel's funeral, though the German edition of this translation was published four years after his death. It also does not discuss his continued Nazi sympathies, and his recurring embarrassment of the West German government with his right-wing activities after the war. But be charitable: he was the greatest combat pilot ever, and should be respected as such
79 of 84 people found the following review helpful.
Stuka Pilot - A fascinating story! Full of surprises!
By Jason W. Smith
Every so often you come across a book that literally makes you sad when you must put it down for the last time. Consider this one a nominee to head the list.
Hans Ulrich Rudel was a remarkable individual. Though considered little more than a nuisance to his commanders upon completion of his training, Rudel went on to become Germany's most highly decorated aviator--"the foremost combat pilot in the world." A survivor of gunshot wounds, plane crashes, and a leg amputation (he returned to flight status within days after even *that*), to call him incredible would be a drastic understatement.
Physically fit, mentally astute, possessed with an incredible force of will, and amazingly confident, Rudel was a truly dynamic figure. His maxim, "Only he is lost who gives himself up for lost," though deceivingly simple, is perhaps the finest ever translated into the English language. "Ridiculous," you say. Pick up Rudel's tome, flip through a few pages, and soon you will agree that these words--this man's tremendous accomplishments aside--are an inspiration unto themselves. Readers will quote that line often, with conviction, as the events portrayed in this work flash before their eyes.
Although the translation is somewhat rough at times (in a couple of spots I found sentences that simply made no sense) and the punctuation takes some getting used to, it is easy to become lost in the story. Rudel's narrative strikes a brilliant balance between the daily life of an attack pilot and an overall view of the war in Europe, and many of his revelations about the war on the Eastern Front are startling. Rudel also manages to paint Adolf Hitler less as a demagogue and more as a human, something I thought completely impossible. (Rudel didn't quite convince me, but he certainly showed a side of Hitler, evil as he was in so many ways, I'd never seen before.)
Thought the Stuka was slow, old, and incapable? Thought a rear gunner was anachronistic and ineffective? Thought the Soviets steamrollered the German Army with impunity after Operation Barbarosa ground to a standstill? Thought stubbing your toe on the floor was the definition of "bad day?" To give details would spoil this fine work. Pick up a copy. There's many a surprise here! (Note to those unfamiliar with Europe and Asia: find a good map and have it close at hand as you read "Stuka Pilot" as there are no maps in most versions of this book.)
Some will insist Rudel's commentary is self-aggrandizing, that his recollections are tainted and innaccurate. Though this may very well be true, one must consider that history is not written by those defeated in battle. In this light, one must also concede that winning does not exempt the victors from being biased themselves, and we would serve ourselves well to read tales written by those on the short end of the proverbial stick from time to time. I cannot think of a work better suited to this purpose.
This story provides its readers with a perspective on the war rarely--if at all--seen. More importantly, it stands as a testimony to what one person can accomplish in the face of insurmountable odds. An absolutely wonderful, wonderful, wonderful autobiography. Worth every dime.
"All one needs is a little luck," Rudel wrote.
...That, and the courage to try...
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