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With wings like eagles : a history of the Battle of Britain / Michael Korda.

Korda, Michael, 1933- (Author).

Summary:

Michael Korda takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and victory. Korda 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. He deftly interweaves the critical strands of the story--the invention of radar; the developments by visionary aircraft designers; and the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare. As Nazi Germany rearmed after 1933, one eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, persevered--despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting--to perfect the British RAF fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0061125350
ISBN: 9780061125355
ISBN: 9780060756659
ISBN: 0060756659
Physical Description: 319 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Harper, [2009]
Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 727-747) and index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-310).
Formatted Contents Note:	1. "The Bomber Will Always Get Through." -- 2. "To England, All Eyes Were Turned. All That Has Gone Now. Nothing Has Been Done in 'the Years That the Locust Hath Eaten'." -- 3. "I Can't Understand Why Chicago Gangsters Can Have Bulletproof Glass in Their Cars, and I Can't Get It in My Spitfires!" -- 4. "The Other Side of the Hill" -- 5. The First Act: Dunkirk and the Dowding Letter -- 6. Round One: "Der Kanalkampf" -- 7. Round Two: Sparring -- 8. Adlerangriff, August 1940 -- 9. The Hardest Days - August 16 Through September 15 -- 10. The Turning Point -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
Citation/References Note:	Libr Journal, May 15,2007 Publ Weekly, May 21,2007 Booklist, June 01,2007 Kirkus, June 15,2007
Target Audience Note:	Adult. Adult.