This book  book, "The Blond Knight of Germany"   is a book dedicated to the life and career of the Luftwaffe's top acet  Erich Hartman.   This particular copy is a soft cover and was purchased in 1992 NEW by me.  It has been stored ever since and never read.  It is in new like condition having a small compression mark at upper left hand corner of binding. .   Published originally  by Tab/Aero, 1970.  This is First Edition sixth printing.   This book is signed on title page by Walter Schuck, Kurt Schlze and Ernst Scheufele.  There is a book plate pictured with the signature of ERICK HARTMANN and the authors Ray Toliver and Trevor Constable (pictured).  

Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993) was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace  in the history of aerial warfare.  He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He was credited with shooting down a total of 352 allied aircraft: 345 Soviet and 7 American while serving with the Luftwaffe. During his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his fighter 16 times after either mechanical failure or damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had shot down; he was never shot down by direct enemy action.  He was awarded among other medals  the Knights Cross with Diamonds, Oakleaves and Swords.  After the war he was interred by the Soviets for 10 years, before returning to Germany to help start the new Luftwaffe.  .  

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 ace was awarded the German Cross and  the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves.

Kurt Schulze (b. 1921) began his German military service in 1939 as a cadet with the Air Service Corps. He started out as a wireless operator and air traffic controller before becoming a navigation officer. As a Navigator, he flew 23 night missions in Dornier Do 217s over England. In September of 1943, he received his wings as a pilot and in March 1944 he started fighter pilot training. From then until May 1945, Schulze flew 103 missions. Sixty-five of those missions were in Messerschmitt BF-109 on the Russo-Finnish border. When Finland signed a peace agreement with Russia, Schulze's unit was moved to Northern Norway. Schulze's last nine missions were in command of the first JG-51 squadron. After the war, he was turned over to the American Forces and then to the French. In 1951 he moved to California and in 1958 he became a US citizen. Schulze had a strong friendship with Colonel Raymond Toliver, author of books on German World War II pilots, and he translated German correspondence and documents for Toliver's research, as the author did not speak or write German.

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. 

Blonde Knight of Germany is written and autographed by the following two authors

Colonel Raymond F. Toliver (  16 November 1914- 4 December 2006)  test pilot and military historian, had flown over 225 types of aircraft and accumulated over 9,000 hours during 28 years of service to his country retiring as a Colonel from the air force in 1965.  While still in the military in1951 Toliver began writing about the American Fighter aces and his first of many books was published in 1965.  He had a  co-author with this and some of his others books, Trevor Constable.

Trevor James Constable (17 September 1925 − 31 March 2016) was an early UFO writer who believed that the UFO phenomenon was best explained by the presence of enormous amamoeba-like animals inhabiting earth's atmosphere.^] A native of Wellington New Zealand , he served 31 years at sea, 26 of them as a radio officer in the U.S. merchant marine. He authored several books on the aerial warfare of World War II, together with co-author Raymond Toliver. .