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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal

Author : Richard Michael Milburn
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399044435
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal written by Richard Michael Milburn and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Frederick Algernon Portal was born in Hungerford, England, in 1893. One of seven brothers, Portal developed a fierce competitive streak and a steely determination from an early age. Known by all who knew him as Peter, Portal enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of the First World War as a dispatch rider, being mentioned in General Frenchs very first dispatch. Portals abilities were quickly recognized, and he gained a commission in short order. It was in the air that Portal saw his future, and he subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, before training as a pilot. In this latter role, Portal proved a courageous and instinctive leader, garnering the rare accolade of a DSO and Bar for his wartime service. His meteoric rise continued in the inter-war period, and when Hitlers forces invaded Poland, Portal had already ascended to the Air Force Board. He then took the RAFs top command post at Bomber Command during the battles of France and Britain, before replacing Cyril Newall as Chief of Air Staff, aged just 47, in October 1940. Charles Portal was, in General Eisenhowers words, Britains greatest wartime leader, including Churchill. Portal was a strategist, a diplomat and an outstanding leader of the RAF in the Second World War. He built productive and enduring relationships with the most powerful Allied leaders some of which, including Churchill, Bomber Harris, and Hap Arnold, are explored here. Portal helped direct the UKs strategy from the darkest days of 1940 through to Allied victory in 1945. He never lost his calm, even under the most extreme pressure, and approached the war with a cool logic that defied the chaos of the day. Despite his enormous achievements, and being showered with post-war accolades, Portal is little known today. His historical anonymity is a reflection of his disinterest in his own legacy. He neither kept wartime diaries, nor penned an egotistical autobiography to cash in on his post-war fame. He retired as he had served, with dignity and humility, traits that made him particularly influential with American allies. As Wing Commander Rich Milburn reveals in this long-overdue second biography, Charles Portal was a hero in every sense; a heroic battlefield leader in one global conflict, and one of the men most directly responsible for Allied victory in a second.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal

Author : Richard Michael Milburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399044394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal written by Richard Michael Milburn and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

High Commanders of the Royal Air Force

Author : Henry Probert
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Commanders of the Royal Air Force written by Henry Probert and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most senior commanders of the Royal Air Force are already well-known and have received considerable attention from historians and biographers. Little, however, has been written about most of those who have held the highest appointment the Service has to offer. The 22 biographies in this book include all 19 past Chiefs of the 3 Air Staff and three other very senior commanders. Drawn from a wide cross-section of the nation's talent, their varied careers reflect the history of the Service itself, in war-time as well as in peace-time.

Portal of Hungerford

Author : Denis Richards
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Portal of Hungerford written by Denis Richards and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portal of Hungerford

Author : Denis Richards
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Portal of Hungerford written by Denis Richards and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1977 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Relations of the United States

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945 written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare

Author : Tami Biddle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824974
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare written by Tami Biddle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged. Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible. Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare.

Prologue

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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The Leadership, Direction and Legitimacy of the RAF Bomber Offensive from Inception to 1945

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144112313X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Leadership, Direction and Legitimacy of the RAF Bomber Offensive from Inception to 1945 written by Peter Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh approach to the debate on the RAF's bomber offensive by using modern strategic leadership theory as an analytical tool to examine the campaign. In particular, it looks at the legality and legitimacy of the offensive and explores the key interfaces between the military leaders, the politicians and allies. It also looks at the major controversies in the aims and objectives of the campaign and the personalities involved. Modern literature from the leadership field is used to consider the challenges facing those charged with the formulation and execution of the offensive. Aspects of the senior leadership disputes are also dealt with in the context of the leadership literature and in the wider context of the strategic challenges then facing Churchill, Sinclair and Portal. A multi-disciplinary bent to the book enables the reader to move beyond the narrow confines of military considerations to the thorough investigation of the legality, legitimacy and morality of the offensive.

D-Day, 1944

Author : Theodore A. Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book D-Day, 1944 written by Theodore A. Wilson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers may be astonished at how much scholarly digging and the release of once-secret information have transformed the history of this campaign. At times it seems like a whole new war". -- New York Times Book Review.

The Conference of Berlin (the Potsdam Conference), 1945

Author : United States. Department of State. Historical Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Conference of Berlin (the Potsdam Conference), 1945 written by United States. Department of State. Historical Office and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Department of State Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victory

Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795331630
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Victory written by Winston S. Churchill and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister’s historic speeches from the final year of WWII are collected in this essential volume. During the final eight months of World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave some of the most brilliant and consequential speeches of his career. Here are Churchill’s war status reports delivered to the House of Commons, his rousing statements to the British people, and his global broadcasts, including his announcement of Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8th, 1945. These speeches detail Churchill's public reactions to the forming of the United Nations, the death of Roosevelt, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, and, lastly, the election that defeats him. Perhaps most notable is the "Gestapo" speech of 1945, in which Churchill made a controversial comparison between a Socialist government and the Gestapo—an extremely charged word at that time—that many believe cost him his job as Prime Minister.

The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146963970X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945 written by Alfred C. Mierzejewski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning and intelligence, including the first complete analysis in English of the German National Railway. The German industrial economy was extraordinarily dependent on the timely, adequate distribution of coal by railroad and inland waterway. The German National Railway in particular was the pivot of the finely balanced armaments production and distribution system created by Albert Speer. But Allied strategists did not immediately recognize this. Only in late 1944, when Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Sir Arthur Tedder built a new strategic consensus, was this vital coal/transport nexus severed. The result was the rapid paralysis of the Nazi war economy. Mierzejewski measures the economic consequences of the bombing by considering broad indices such as armaments and coal production, railway performance, and weapons deliveries to the armed forces. In addition, he shows how individual companies in each of Germany's major economic regions fared. By drawing on previously unexamined files of private German manufacturing companies, the Reich Transportation Ministry, and Allied air intelligence agencies, Mierzejewski creates a rare combination of economic analysis and military history that provides new perspectives on the German war economy and Allied air intelligence.