In these memoirs Johannes Steinhoff recounts gripping episodes from his Luftwaffe wartime career. Focusing on this ace pilot's defence of Sicily before and after the Allied landings, we read of the technology, operational life and intrigue within the German military machine; how Goering had fallen out of favour with Hitler and condemned his leading pilots as cowards and then how many senior air officers plotted to depose the brutish Luftwaffe leader.