Table of Contents

Origins
Chronology
Attacker's Capabilities
Defender's Capabilities
The Campaign
Assessment
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An expert account of Nazi Germany's air war during the Spanish Civil War, where air power turned the tide for Franco and taught the Luftwaffe how to wage Blitzkrieg.

About the Author

Dr James Corum, PhD, teaches military history at Salford University, UK, having been dean of the Baltic Defence College 2009–2014. From 1991 to 2004, he was a professor at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. In 2005, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he held a Leverhulme Fellowship, and then an associate professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr Corum is the author of numerous books on military history, including The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform (1992); and The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940 (1997). He has also authored more than 60 major book chapters and journal articles on a variety of subjects related to air power and military history.

Reviews

"Legion Condor offers interesting insights into the German air arm's importance to the outcome of the Spanish Civil War and that conflict's contribution to accelerating the Luftwaffe's evolution." --Aviation History