An analysis of the aerial battle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940 provides a full account of the tactics and artillery on both sides, including descriptions of the Hurricane, Spitfire, and Bf 109 aircraft. Reprint.
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Review:
Deighton has managed to give the whole event a clarity which it lacked. Above all the machines mattered and on those he is tremendous. (Clive James New Statesman)
Compelling reading...a praiseworthy attempt to compress into one short volume one of the most vital albeit brief periods of European history, with all its nuances and complexities. (Financial Times)
Must surely rank as the most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was. (Andrew Wilson Observer)
Brilliant analysis...provides a detailed account fuller than any previously written. (A.J.P. Taylor)
The best, most dispassionate story of the battle I have read, and I say that even though the book destroyed many of my illustrations. (Drew Middleton New York Times)
From the Publisher:
Len Deighton's Bestselling history of the Battle of Britain is generally regarded as the finest there is.
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