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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.
The Last Enemy (first published in America as Falling Through Space), is a war memoir written by the Second World War Anglo-Australian fighter pilot Richard Hillary detailing his experiences during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, lit. 'air battle for England') was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
After the Battle of Britain, 10 Group also provided fighter cover missions for convoys approaching and leaving the British Isles. Pilots rotated into 10 Group from either 12 or 13 Group knew that soon they would go over to 11 Group, so the pilots took advantage of their comparatively safer area of operation to hone their skills.
1940: Myth and Reality is a controversial 1990 book by British historian Clive Ponting.It is a revisionist history of the Second World War, particularly the divergences between the rhetoric and the reality in relation to popular British narratives of the Battle of Britain.
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 ...
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 ...