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Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work: the knight who endures unrivaled danger and fights nobly ...

In this book, the author puts Richtofen's fighting record into perspective with the famous fighter pilots of World War II. He argues that Richtofen's reputation may have been created by the German propaganda machine, or the Allied pilots who were outfought by Germany's advanced technology.