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The book covers the traditional period of the Battle of Britain and the buildup to it and describes the war in the air as much from the German point of view as the British one. Deighton explains both the political and personal machinations and how they influenced technical decisions and affected the efforts of both countries.
Hillary's biographer, Denis Richards, writes that the book and its author met with instant acclaim, although the book was unusual in the depth of its storytelling: [5] The author was acclaimed not only as a natural writer, but also as a representative of the doomed youth of his generation, although in his constant self-analysis he was in fact a most untypical British fighter pilot of 1940.
The revisionism is different from that of, for example, The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality, a 2000 book by British historian Richard Overy, and draws different (arguably more pessimistic) conclusions. The book caused a minor sensation when published, but few of the revelations were new, most having been published in other books in the ...
The Battle of Britain, July–October 1940: An Oral History of Britain's Finest Hour (London: Headline Book Publishing, 2000) ISBN 978-0747234500; Monte Cassino: The Story of the Hardest-Fought Battle in World War II (London: Headline Book Publishing, 2003; Doubleday Books, 2004) ISBN 978-0385509855
In connection with the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 2010, a new English translation was commissioned by publisher Aquila Polonica at the request of Fiedler's son. 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron is the first new English-language edition of Dywizjon 303 since 1942, and for the first time in English ...
About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore ? Quite a bit, it turns out, particularly regarding the bloodiest battle of the war and ...
On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England. In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation ...
Returning to Britain, he is sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man because of his Austrian birth and failure to pursue naturalisation. During the Battle of Britain, he is freed to become a fighter pilot. Meanwhile, brother Sergeant Troy investigates the murders of several East End rabbis. The parallel stories eventually converge at the ...