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With Wings Like Eagles by Michael Korda Battle of Britain Soft Cover
With Wings Like Eagles by Michael Korda
The untold story of the Battle of Britain
Soft Cover
322 pages Indexed
Copyright 2009
CONTENTS
1 "The Bomber Will Always Get Through."1
2 "To England, All Eyes Were Turned. All That Has Gone Now. Nothing Has Been Done in 'the Years That the Locust Hath Eaten.'"15
3 "I Can't Understand Why Chicago Gangsters Can Have Bulletproof Glass in Their Cars, and I Can't Get It in My Spitfires!"33
4 "The Other Side of the Hill"59
5 The First Act: Dunkirk and the Dowding Letter77
6 Round One: "Der Kanalkampf"121
7 Round Two: Sparring141
8 Adlerangriff, August 1940163
9 The Hardest DaysAugust 16 Through September 15205
10 The Turning Point283
Acknowledgments301
Bibliography303
Notes307
Index311
ON THE BACK COVER
In the summer of 1940; fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. In this superb history of three epic months that saved the world, Michael Korda brilliantly re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern Englandwhile tracing, perhaps for the first time, the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that inexorably led to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. With Wings Like Eagles brings to vivid life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflictfrom Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring to the ground crews, the German pilots, the American volunteers, and the courageous airmen and airwomen of the RAF.
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