With wings like eagles: a history of the Battle of Britain
From the Publisher: Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force-often no more than nine hundred on any given day-stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within h...
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| Zusammenfassung: | From the Publisher: Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force-often no more than nine hundred on any given day-stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. Korda re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England, and at the same time-perhaps for the first time-traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. Korda deftly interweaves the critical strands of the story-the invention of radar (the most important of Britain's military secrets); the developments by such visionary aircraft designers as R. J Mitchell, Sidney Camm, and Willy Messerschmitt of the revolutionary, all-metal, high-speed monoplane fighters the British Spitfire and Hurricane and the German Bf 109; the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare and the prevailing belief that "the bomber will always get through" (in the words of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin). As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, the central figure of Korda's book, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Fighter Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible Dowding persevered-despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting-to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught. Korda brings to life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict, from such major historical figures as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Herman Goring (and his disputatious and bitterly feuding generals) to the British and German pilots, the American airmen who joined the RAF just in time for the Battle of Britain, the young airwomen of the RAF, the ground crews who refueled and rearmed the fighters in the middle of heavy German raids, and such heroic figures as Douglas Bader, Josef Frantisek, and the Luftwaffe aces Adolf Galland and his archrival Werner Molders |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | 322 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780061125355 |
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CONTENTS
1 "The Bomber Will
Always Get Through."
1
2
"To England, All Eyes Were Turned. All That Has
Gone Now. Nothing Has Been Done in 'the Years
That the Locust Hath Eaten.'"
15
3
"I Can't Understand Why Chicago Gangsters Can
Have Bulletproof Glass in Their Cars, and I Can't
Get It in My Spitfires!"
33
4
"The Other Side of the Hill"
59
5
The First Act: Dunkirk and the Dowding Letter
77
6
Round One:
"Der Kanalkampf 121
7
Round Two: Sparring
141
8 Adlerangriff,
August
1940 163
9
The Hardest Days-
August
16
Through September
15 205
10
The Turning Point
283
Acknowledgments
301
Bibliography
303
Notes
307
Index
311 |
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CONTENTS
1 "The Bomber Will
Always Get Through."
1
2
"To England, All Eyes Were Turned. All That Has
Gone Now. Nothing Has Been Done in 'the Years
That the Locust Hath Eaten.'"
15
3
"I Can't Understand Why Chicago Gangsters Can
Have Bulletproof Glass in Their Cars, and I Can't
Get It in My Spitfires!"
33
4
"The Other Side of the Hill"
59
5
The First Act: Dunkirk and the Dowding Letter
77
6
Round One:
"Der Kanalkampf 121
7
Round Two: Sparring
141
8 Adlerangriff,
August
1940 163
9
The Hardest Days-
August
16
Through September
15 205
10
The Turning Point
283
Acknowledgments
301
Bibliography
303
Notes
307
Index
311 |
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