Rising to prominence as a builder of biplanes and triplanes used by Germany in WWI, Anthony Fokker (1890-1939) made aerial combat possible by inventing a device to synchronize machine gun fire with propellers. By 1918, he was manufacturing Germany's top fighter planes. A decade later, with his business interests extending from Germany and his native Holland to the United States, he headed the world's largest aircraft manufacturing conglomerate, renowned for an innovative trimotor plane. Book reveals Fokker’s mixed career as an aviation businessman. Fokker's reluctance to invest in research and development, his propensity for producing small-series, highly customized aircraft, and his struggle with quality control led to the eventual decline of his empire.