8vo. 192pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered gilt, with the original striking black, white and yellow dustwrapper. Nine pen signatures of various airmen to FFEP, with corresponding ink notes to pastedown. Contemporary marketing slip loosely inserted.

First edition in English of Roell's biography of 'a man who may have been the last of the Knights'. A night fighter pilot and flying ace, Wittgenstein accumulated 83 aerial victories, the third highest of the Luftwaffe by the end of WWII. He was shot down in January 1944 in an attack that remains unclaimed.

Werner Roell (1914 – 2008) was a highly decorated Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II, flying nearly five hundred operations, and later serving with the Jagdverband and as a translator. According to the rear flat, his hobbies were writing and painting.