Ernst Udet My Life as a Pilot With 78 Illustrations _____ Ullstein Publishing, Berlin

61 - 100 Thousand Copyright 1935 by Ullstein A.G., Berlin Printed in Germany

Table of Contents Flight over the Enemy's Country ..........9 The First Battle ................................32 Death Flies Faster .............................43 Richthofen ........................................63 Returning Home ................................80 The End ...........................................98 A New Start ....................................118 Four Men in Africa ............................135 Flying in America .............................154 At the Edge of the World ..................164 Conclusion ......................................176 Appendix ........................................179

I write this book for the young men who come after us. They will be the judges of our actions. I dedicate this book to my dead comrades. They accomplished the greatest deeds of us all. And if I wish to assign a particular purpose to the book, it is this: I wish to show that our fates rested in our own hands whether we would be merchants or soldiers, whether we would enjoy life or consider our good fortune nothing more than an idea whereby the tiny boat of our existence flows in the eternal stream of history.                                                       Ernst Udet

Webpage Contents Webpage 1 - Flight over the Enemy's Country, pages 9-19. Webpage 2 - Flight over the Enemy's Country, pages 20-31. Webpage 3 - The First Battle, pages 32 - 42 Webpage 4 - Death flies faster, pages 43 - 62 Webpage 5 - Richthofen, pages 63 - 79 Webpage 6 - Returning Home, pages 80 - 97 Webpage 7 - The End, pages 98 - 117 Webpage 8 - A New Start, pages 118 - 134 Webpage 9 - Four Men in Africa, pages 135 - 153 Webpage 10 - Flying in America, pages 154 - 163 Webpage 11 - At the Edge of the World and Conclusion, pages 164 - 178 Webpage 12 - Appendix, pages 179 - 184 and ads Webpage 13 - Supplementary newspaper articles on the life of Ernst Udet.

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Imaging and translation by Susan Kriegbaum-Hanks