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The Battle of Britain (Royal Air Force Official Histories: Air Defence of Great Britain, v. 2)
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Product Description
This is the second volume of the classified history of air defence in Great Britain.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #368163 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 456 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
This is the second volume of the classified history of air defence in Great Britain. Written while World War II was still being fought, the account has an analysis of the defensive tactics of Fighter Command, and attempts a day-by-day analysis of the action as it took place.
Customer Reviews
An invaluable contribution to the history of the Battle
Book Review by Peter W Gray: Even the most superficial glance around the shelves of a military library - or the pages of favourite on line bookseller reveal many works on a given campaign. Some will be based on oral testimony, others on archive photographs. Some examine twists in policy or the personalities involved. The more ambitious attempt to cover the whole operation or battle. The histiography of the Battle of Britain is no exception with many works on the subject. What the vast majority have in common is that they have drawn on the official narrative compiled during the war by the Air Historical Branch. This book represents the second volume of the narrative; it has now been declassified and published through Frank Cass's Whitehall History Series. The book does not purport to be the ultimate work on the Battle of Britain, but its wide availability should mean that all serious students now have access to invaluable primary source material. It contains, in its own right so much interesting material that it is worthy of a place on any bookshelf.
The ur-text for the Battle of Britain
A significant book, since it is the narrative on which all subsequent histories are based. Originally written in the late years of the war, the five-phase structure and much of the statistical information and analysis has been echoed by most histories since the 1960s, when the war archives were finally opened under the 25 year rule. For the scholar it is an essential primary source on the Battle of Britain, while the lively prose makes it a highly accessible document. Modern scholarship has corrected many errors in the narrative or clarified many points, but this is still the first and in some ways best source for the student of the Battle.
