Hermann Goring was the First World War combat pilot and "Ace" who served as the last commander of von Richtofen"s "Flying Circus" and rose to become Hitler"s Reichsmarschall; the "Second Man" of the Third Reich. In this major biography, based on hitherto undiscovered diaries and private and official documents, David Irving tells how Goring connived, intrigued, and conspired to bring Adolf Hitler to power, how he directed National Socialist Germany"s industrial resurgence, commanded the mighty Luftwaffe, (Air Force), and served as Hitler"s buttress through the years of struggle, triumph, and decline.