TY - BOOK AU - Taylor,Blaine TI - Hermann Goering in the First World War: the Personal Photograph Albums of Hermann Goering SN - 9781625450463 AV - D604 .T395 2014 U1 - 940.44943 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Stroud PB - Fonthill KW - Göring, Hermann, KW - Germany KW - Luftwaffe KW - Biography KW - Fighter pilots KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Aerial operations, German N2 - "This book concentrates on an earlier era of Hermann Goring's life: the slim, dashing fighter pilot and combat ace of an earlier struggle, the Great War, or World War I of 1914-18, which he began as an infantry officer fighting the French Army in the 1914 Battle of the Frontiers. During a hospitalization, his friend Bruno Lorzer convinced him to become an aerial observer-photographer, photographing the mighty French fortress of Verdun. He did, and began these never-before-seen personal photo albums of men and aircraft at war: up close." ER -