With wings like eagles : a history of the Battle of Britain /
Korda, Michael, 1933-
With wings like eagles : a history of the Battle of Britain / Michael Korda. - 1st HarperLuxe ed. - New York : HarperLuxe, c2009. - 437 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-437).
"The bomber will always get through" -- "To England, all eyes were turned. All that has gone now. Nothing has been done in 'the years that the locust hath eaten.'" -- "I can't understand why Chicago gangsters can have bulletproof glass in their cars, and I can't get it in my Spitfires!" -- "The other side of the hill" -- The first act: Dunkirk and the Dowding letter -- Round 1: "Der Kanalkampf" -- Round 2: Sparring -- Adlerangriff, August 1940 -- The hardest days: Aug 16 thru Sep 15 -- The turning point.
0061719714 9780061719714
Great Britain. Royal Air Force --History--World War, 1939-1945.
Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
Large type books.
With wings like eagles : a history of the Battle of Britain / Michael Korda. - 1st HarperLuxe ed. - New York : HarperLuxe, c2009. - 437 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-437).
"The bomber will always get through" -- "To England, all eyes were turned. All that has gone now. Nothing has been done in 'the years that the locust hath eaten.'" -- "I can't understand why Chicago gangsters can have bulletproof glass in their cars, and I can't get it in my Spitfires!" -- "The other side of the hill" -- The first act: Dunkirk and the Dowding letter -- Round 1: "Der Kanalkampf" -- Round 2: Sparring -- Adlerangriff, August 1940 -- The hardest days: Aug 16 thru Sep 15 -- The turning point.
0061719714 9780061719714
Great Britain. Royal Air Force --History--World War, 1939-1945.
Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
Large type books.