This book Aces of the Reich was first  published in Great Britain in 1989 by Arms and Armour Press.  It was distributed in the USA by Sterling Publishing Company, New York.  The author is Gordon Williamson.  It  was  purchased NEW  by me at a Dinner/book signing in Tustin California in 1991 .  It has been stored since purchased and is being offered in NEW CONDITION.   At the dinner  two Luftwaffe aces signed this book.  Walter Schuck and Ernst Scheufele.  

Walter Schuck was born on July 30th, 1920 and passed away on March 27, 2015.  He was a German military aviator who served in the Luftwaffe  from 1937 until the end of World War II. As a fighter ace  he claimed 206 enemy aircraft shot down in over 500 combat missions, eight of which while flying the Messerschmitt Me 262.   Of his victories 198 were on the Eastern Front and eight on the Western Front. This  German World War II ace was awarded the German Cross and the  Knights Cross with Oak Leaves. Ernst Scheufele  was a Luftwaffe fighter ace  during World War III, attached to JG-5. He was credited with 18 victories. He flew 67 escort missions for German Bismark-class battleships and German Tirpitz-class Battleships. Oberleutnant Ernst Scheufele Joined the Luftwaffe in October 1940,  was posted to Norway in June 1942, to join 4./JG5 There, flying Me109's he carried out a total of 67 escort missions for the German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz. In October 1943 he joined II./JG5 flying over Artic waters, in Finland, and on the Russian front, before transferring to the defense of the Reich in June 1944. On 3rd December 1944 he was shot down by American flak battery near Saxony, wounded and taken prisoner surviving the way he passed away in 2010. 

Aces of the Reich provides an outstanding collection of more that 100 mini-biographies of the men who were at the forefront of German action, in advance and retreat, during the second world war.