Condor Legion (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Weapons Book, No.35)

160 pp. Goring saw the chance to test his fledgling Luftwaffe, and 700 carefully chosen pilots flew for France in the Spanish Civil War. In Spain they rehearsed the bombing of towns, proved the dive bomber, developed the tactic of close support for ground troops. Their experience was vital to Germany's early successes in the Second World War.