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Portraying Great War German aces

For the first time in 85 years, the famous Sanke postcards of WWI Imperial German aviators have been reproduced. The Sanke Cards by Charles Woolley (Schiffer 610-593-1777, $69.95) offers clear, large reproductions of all known and highly collectible Sanke personality photo postcards produced during WWI. Carefully replicated, the cards are included under one cover in this large, deluxe volume.

Over 270 different cards of 132 individual aviators are included in this ground-breaking edition. Boelcke, Immelmann, the Richthofen brothers, Udet, and Goering are just a few of the famed aces and Pour le Merite flyers photographed by Postkarten-Vertrieb Willi Sanke.

Each postcard is given full-page coverage, accompanied by a brief history of each man together with his victories and highest attained award. A bibliography is included for the reader desiring to further research the lives of Germany's unusual, heralded, and greatest heroes of the Great War.

This book is a must for the student of uniforms as it depicts the amazing variety worn by the flyers of the Luftstreitkrafte 1914-18, and also shows them wearing the multitude of awards and decorations presented to Germany's airborne heroes. Both private and museum collections have been combed to provide the book with the finest possible coverage ever compiled on the work of Willi Sanke and his talented photographers.