GOERING - The Iron Man

The biography of a larger-than-life figure in every sense of the word, in the "Masters of War" collection. Hermann Goering, the second most powerful figure in the Third Reich, served simultaneously as Prussian Minister of the Interior, President of the Reichstag, master of the Four-Year Plan, and Reich Master of the Hunt. But Goering was above all a military man: a virtuoso aviator and the last commander of the celebrated Richthofen squadron during the Great War, it was as a field marshal and commander-in-chief of the German air force that he was drawn, reluctantly, into the great upheaval of the Second World War.

From Dunkirk to Stalingrad, he played an essential role in the course of German military operations — and in the successive defeats of the Wehrmacht. It is this larger-than-life figure that François Kersaudy invites us to revisit, with the aid of abundant iconographic illustrations.

The author: Professor François Kersaudy, known in France for his works on Winston Churchill and General de Gaulle, is already the author of the only French-language biography of Field Marshal Goering (Perrin, 2009), as well as the bestseller Les secrets du Troisième Reich (Perrin, 2013). A polyglot historian who speaks nine languages, he has received twelve French and foreign literary prizes.