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Provides a detailed account of the problems of aircraft design in the inter-war years, and analyzes what occurred during the Battle of Britain. Len Deighton is the author of "The Battle of Britain", and the spy novels, "The Ipcress File" and "Game, Set and Match".
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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)
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Len Deighton's Bestselling history of the Battle of Britain is generally regarded as the finest there is.
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Fighter
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Condition: Fair. He'll do anything to save a young girl's life. She's a runaway who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can a carjacking turn into a partnership that will redeem them both?Deeks: I may be an asshole, but I'd never intentionally hurt an innocent.I had to steal her car, though.To save someone I swore to protect.I've screwed up enough times to turn my life into a wreck.But I'm not failing on this one.Maybe this chick can help me.I don't want to risk her life, but she's smart and resourceful, and just might know how to keep us alive.Kena Chan with her beautiful eyes and knock-out smile.Grandpa would love her. He always told me to find a girl who was a thinker. They're worth their weight in gold, son. If anyone can get you out of a mess, it's a woman who's smarter than you are.I hope he's right.I hope that the Barrett in me can find the strength to fight this battle and get everyone to safety before it's too late. The Fighter is the second standalone book in a thrilling YA romance series. If you like high-octane drama, a smoking hot bad boy, fiery banter and sizzling kisses, then you'll love Jordan Ford's gripping novel.Buy The Fighter for a heart-racing love story today. Seller Inventory # 00108286337
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Fighter
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Ballantine Books, 1979
ISBN 10: 0345274253
ISBN 13: 9780345274250
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Fighter
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Condition: Fair. He'll do anything to save a young girl's life. She's a runaway who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can a carjacking turn into a partnership that will redeem them both?Deeks: I may be an asshole, but I'd never intentionally hurt an innocent.I had to steal her car, though.To save someone I swore to protect.I've screwed up enough times to turn my life into a wreck.But I'm not failing on this one.Maybe this chick can help me.I don't want to risk her life, but she's smart and resourceful, and just might know how to keep us alive.Kena Chan with her beautiful eyes and knock-out smile.Grandpa would love her. He always told me to find a girl who was a thinker. They're worth their weight in gold, son. If anyone can get you out of a mess, it's a woman who's smarter than you are.I hope he's right.I hope that the Barrett in me can find the strength to fight this battle and get everyone to safety before it's too late. The Fighter is the second standalone book in a thrilling YA romance series. If you like high-octane drama, a smoking hot bad boy, fiery banter and sizzling kisses, then you'll love Jordan Ford's gripping novel.Buy The Fighter for a heart-racing love story today. Seller Inventory # CIN0345274253A
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Fighter : The True Story of the Battle of Britain
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Random House Publishing Group, 1979
ISBN 10: 0345274253
ISBN 13: 9780345274250
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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 17329309-6
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Fighter : The True Story of the Battle of Britain
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ISBN 10: 0345274253
ISBN 13: 9780345274250
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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 3206727-6
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Fighter
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Seller Inventory # 123754242
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Fighter; The True Story of the Battle of Britain
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Ballantine Books, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0345274253
ISBN 13: 9780345274250
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Mass market paperback. Condition: Fair. Jean Paul Tremblay (Maps) (illustrator). xxi, [3], 311, [1] pages. Cover worn and soiled. Some page wear and rippling. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor, Selected Bibilography, and Index. Part One covers Strategy; Part Two covers Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander in Chief Fighter Command; Part Three covers Weapons: The Metal Monoplane and Radar; Part Four covers Tactics; and Part Five covers The Results. The author was the Bestselling Author of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin; Illustrated with over 100 striking photographs, maps, and drawings. Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is a British author. His publications have included history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels. Deighton became a book and magazine illustrator?including designing the cover for first UK edition of Jack Kerouac's 1957 work On the Road. During an extended holiday in France he wrote his first novel, The IPCRESS File, which was published in 1962, and was a critical and commercial success, and he wrote several spy novels featuring the same central character, a working class intelligence officer, cynical and tough. Several of Deighton's works have been adapted for film and other media. Films include The Ipcress File (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967) and Spy Story (1976). In 1988 Granada Television produced the miniseries Game, Set and Match based on his trilogy of the same name, and in 1995 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a "real time" dramatization of his novel Bomber. Derived from a Kirkus review: Len Deighton has written a military delight: a meticulous history of the men and machines of the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force in their struggle over Britain in the summer of 1940. Deighton describes the Battle in the stark, no-nonsense terms of a chess player recounting a game; the reader will not feel what it was like to be a Spitfire or Messerschmitt pilot, but he will know all the cold, hard constraints of aero-technology and strategy under which those airmen operated. In layman's terms, Deighton examines the effective range, armaments, and carrying capacities of the planes, the primitive radar systems employed by both sides, and the advantages and disadvantages of different deployments of aircraft. An extensive air war was unprecedented in 1940, and Deighton renders well the suspense of the deadly trials and errors of both air forces as they groped with logistical problems never before encountered. As in all wars, actual combat was but a small part of the war effort; Deighton thus emphasizes the mundane but vital matters of aircraft production and pilot training in Britain and Germany. Although he gives fullest play to these strategic concerns, Deighton does place them in a political context. The British Air Ministry, full of theorists who had never flown a plane, constantly hampered Air Marshal Hugh Dowding in the conduct of Britain's defense. On the other side, Hitler's preoccupation with Russia and the invincible incompetence of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering precluded a Nazi victory. Deighton's history will be welcomed by all those who never weary of the world's "last romantic battle" First Ballantine Books Edition. Presumed first printing. Seller Inventory # 81975
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ISBN 10: 0345274253
ISBN 13: 9780345274250
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