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The Book is one of Many to appear this year in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain which took place from mid july to Early november 1940. But it is one of the few personal accounts in English that tells the German Side of the Story according to co author Peter Osborne a British aviation history specialist. For example Steinhilper accuses the British of routinely attacking unarmed Rescue planes clearly marked with red crosses. In one incident Steinhilper describes a Mission in which he and other fighter pilots escorted a Heinkel 59 Rescue plane. A British plane tried to attack the Heinkel but Steinhilper and his colleagues shot it Down. The Heinkel then tried to Rescue the British fliers but came under attack from British spitfire fighters. German fighters attacked the spitfires Downing two. A it was All very confusing and to us utterly sickening a Steinhilper wrote. Overall Steinhilper came away with a Low opinion of the Battle considered Britain so finest  picture looked grim a he wrote in one passage in the Book. A i was thinking that we were All fighting to rid the sky of the Raf and what was really my Chuo run to in c Hamel the books publication themselves because commercial publishers weren to interested. The first press run of 2,000 copies is nearly sold out and the two have poured the profits into a revised second edition scheduled for late april. That perseverance is Steinhilpert a trademark a War souvenir that offsets the artificial hip he now has As a result of his 1940 injury. The Book describes How Steinhilper As 20-year-old communications officer campaigned finitely to get two Way radios installed in Luftwaffe planes. Older German pilots fought without radios in the Spanish civil War and considered them unnecessary. Steinhilper said British pilots radios became a key reason for Germany s loss in the Battle of Britain. The Book also recalls the accidents that dogged the Luftwaffe both in training and actual warfare. Steinhilper was assigned to a bomber group that flew past its fuel Range on a september 1940 Mission Over England. His squad made it Back to France but most of the German fighters crashed into the English Channel and 19 pilots drowned. Steinhilper blamed that and other disasters on air Force commander Hermann go ring a inflexibility. A your personal assignment from Goring was always to accompany the bombers even if we had no fuel a he said. He also recalls adhering to the nazi position that the Versailles treaty which ended world War i was a Gross injustice to Germany and forced the nation into War again in 1939. A my father had seen in Hitler a Man who could finally bring Germany where it was supposed to be a Steinhilper said. A i was of the opinion that Hitler would create a United Europe and if other people weren to Clever enough to do that with us together then we would have to Force  he renounces that View now. Steinhilper wrote another Book in. A amps Joseph Owen Ulrich Steinhilper displays a plaque from the Kent Battle of Britain museum showing part of the control mechanism from his plane a yellow two Quot a Messer Schmidt 109 fighter that was shot Dowie Over Southern England in 1940. German about his five failed attempts to escape from prisoner of War Camps in Britain and Canada Between 1940 and 1946. He said his escape attempts although unsuccessful taught him to plan projects and overcome obstacles in carrying them out skills that proved useful at ism. His Pilot s training also paid off in other ways. A flying surely helped me to gain perspective and not stay mired in Small details a Steinhilper said. Shortly after he arrived at ism in the 1950s, he began conducting seminars to push for another technological change a word processing. The idea caught on much later and not because of his efforts. Nonetheless his Early expertise enabled him to write a word processing textbook when the concept matured. When he retired in 1979, he was the head of ism Germany sword processing division. Steinhilpert a business career ended just after he and his wife. Lore finished raising their three children. That s when he started hearing echoes of his air Force Days. Workers dug the wreckage of a yellow two out of the soggy Kent soil in 1980 and took it to the Kent Battle of Britain museum in Hawkinge near Folkestone. In 1984, Yorkshire television filmed Steinhilpert a meeting with Bill Skinner the Pilot who shot him Down. This year Steinhilper will be a guest of Honor at the Shipway Battle of Britain festival to be held sept. 8-16 in Folkestone. 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