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"A soldier's first responsibility is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering." (Kesselring) Albert Kesselring supports a strange place in the history of World War II. A commander in the Luftwaffe, he is remembered the maximum amount of for the skill with which he oversaw the German armies as for his mastery of mid-air fleets. Called "Uncle Albert" by many of his men and "Smiling Albert" by the Allies, he was widely reputed by men on both attributes of the warfare and treasured by many of his troops, yet he was accountable for massacres in occupied Italy for which he was condemned to loss of life through the post-war trials. Finally, his phrase was commuted to one of life imprisonment, making him mostly of the top Nazi market leaders to pen memoirs following the war, but it goes without saying that Kesselring's time was designated by controversy. Kesselring had the abilities of the politician and a diplomat, as well as those of a soldier, which transported his job through both World War I and World War II, and through the Second World War, he served in nearly every movie theater of the fighting in Europe. He was certainly a gifted commander, but one who served at the same time when the German armed service was tainted with the evils of Nazism. Who was Albert Kesselring, and what made this seemingly contradictory man tick? Field Marshal Albert Kesselring: THE LIFE SPAN and Legacy of Nazi Germany's Most Popular Commander analyzes the life span and job of the controversial armed service leader. You will learn about Kesselring like nothing you've seen prior.
