Battle Of Britain

Author : James Holland
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429919418
Total Pages : 1277 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by James Holland and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new account of the Battle of Britain from acclaimed Cambridge historian James Holland The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months based on extensive new research from around the world including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the battle. If Britain's defenses collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe. With France facing defeat and British forces pressed back to the Channel, there were few who believed Britain could survive; but, thanks to a sophisticated defensive system and the combined efforts of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and the defiance of a new Prime Minister, Britain refused to give in. From clashes between coastal convoys and Schnellboote in the Channel to astonishing last stands in Flanders, slaughter by U-boats in an icy Atlantic and dramatic aerial battles over England, The Battle of Britain tells this epic World War II story in a fresh and compelling voice.

Author : Kate Moore
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846034749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by Kate Moore and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the Imperial War Museum in London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this book brings one of the most important battles of World War II to life. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, contemporary art and propaganda posters, and accompanied by numerous first-hand accounts, The Battle of Britain captures the reality and the romance of a defining chapter in British history. Moreover, it offers a detailed analysis of the events immediately preceding the battle, the key strategic decisions by opposing commanders that altered the course of the battle, as well as the development of criticial weaponry and defenses that dramatically changed the way aerial combat was fought. Moore's book pays tribute to visionaries such as R. J. Mitchell and Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, who ensured that, rather than simply a victory snatched from the jaws of defeat, this was a battle for which Britain's Fighter Command was uniquely prepared. Such preparation nearly guaranteed that although the British were vastly outnumbered, they could confidently counter the German fighter planes and bombers that darkened the skies throughout the summer of 1940. It was this small band of men and women, covered in detail in this title, that were the first to successfully oppose the seemingly unstoppable tide of the Nazi war machine, irrevocably altering the course of the rest of the war.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529227704
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Britain written by John Clarke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.

Author : Leonard Mosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle of Britain written by Leonard Mosley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr Alfred Price
Publisher : Greenhill Books
ISBN 13 : 9781853674198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle Of Britain Day written by Dr Alfred Price and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2006-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle of Britain Day is the only full-scale work on the events of this pivotal day in the Battle of Britain. The text is based on eyewitness testimony and official records.

Author : Quentin Reynolds
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394905105
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by Quentin Reynolds and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1963-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas C. Dildy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472820592
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle of Britain 1940 written by Douglas C. Dildy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and previously all-conquering, the German air force had the means to win the Battle of Britain. Yet it did not. This book is an original, rigorous campaign study of the Luftwaffe's Operation Adlerangriff, researched in Germany's World War II archives and using the most accurate data available. Doug Dildy explains the capabilities of both sides, sets the campaign in context, and argues persuasively that it was the Luftwaffe's own mistakes and failures that led to its defeat, and kept alive the Allies' chance to ultimately defeat Nazi Germany.

Author : Patrick Bishop
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623653762
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle of Britain written by Patrick Bishop and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Britain is the epic story of the fight for control of the skies over England in the bitterly long summer of 1940. Bestselling author Patrick Bishopâ??s compelling day-to-day chronicle is enhanced with eye-witness accounts, diary extracts and pilot profiles, as the horrific reality of air combat is vividly portrayed in this account of the life and death struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. This is the story Britainâ??s "finest hour," a fight for national survival that had a profound impact on servicemen and civilians alike, and ultimately proved to be a key a turning point in the course of the war.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Finest Hour written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis K. Mason
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle Over Britain written by Francis K. Mason and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: