The Battle for Britain

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Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529227704
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle for Britain by : John Clarke

Download or read book The Battle for Britain written by John Clarke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.

Battle of Britain 1940

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472820592
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis Battle of Britain 1940 by : Douglas C. Dildy

Download or read book Battle of Britain 1940 written by Douglas C. Dildy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and previously all-conquering, the German air force had the means to win the Battle of Britain. Yet it did not. This book is an original, rigorous campaign study of the Luftwaffe's Operation Adlerangriff, researched in Germany's World War II archives and using the most accurate data available. Doug Dildy explains the capabilities of both sides, sets the campaign in context, and argues persuasively that it was the Luftwaffe's own mistakes and failures that led to its defeat, and kept alive the Allies' chance to ultimately defeat Nazi Germany.

The Battle of Britain

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312675003
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Britain by : James Holland

Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by James Holland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press"--T.p. verso.

Battle of Britain, 1940

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Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526775964
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis Battle of Britain, 1940 by : Dilip Sarkar

Download or read book Battle of Britain, 1940 written by Dilip Sarkar and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of 1940 remains a pivotal moment in modern British history – still inspiring immense national pride and a global fascination. The Fall of France was catastrophic. Britain stood alone and within range of German air attack. America, with its vast resources was neutral, Hitler’s forces unbeaten, the outlook for Britain bleak. As Britain’s wartime leader, Winston Churchill, rightly predicted, ‘the Battle of Britain is about to begin’. Famously, Churchill mobilized the English language, emboldening the nation with rousing rhetoric. In this darkest of hours, Churchill told the people that this was, in fact, their ‘Finest Hour’, a time of unprecedented courage and defiance which defined the British people. Connecting the crucial battle with Shakespeare’s heroic Henry V and Agincourt, Churchill also immortalized Fighter Command’s young aircrew as the ‘Few’ – to whom so many owed everything. The Few comprised nearly 3,000 aircrew, 544 of which gave their lives during the Battle of Britain’s sixteen weeks of high drama. Arguably, however, the official dates of 10 July – 31 October 1940 are arbitrary, the fighting actually ongoing before and afterwards. Many gave their lives whose names are not included among the Few, as of course did civilians, seamen, and ground staff – which is not overlooked in this groundbreaking book. In this unique study, veteran historian and author Dilip Sarkar explores the individual stories of a wide selection of those who lost their lives during the ‘Finest Hour’, examining their all-too brief lives and sharing these tragic stories – told here, in full, for the first time. Also included is the story of a German fighter pilot, indicating the breadth of investigation involved. Researched with the full cooperation of the families concerned, this work is a crucial contribution to the Battle of Britain’s bibliography.

The Hardest Day

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Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781844258208
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hardest Day by : Alfred Price

Download or read book The Hardest Day written by Alfred Price and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one single day in the Battle of Britain. Sunday 18 August 1940 saw the Luftwaffe launch three major air assaults on Britain and the events of that day changed the destiny of the war. Alfred Price gives a compelling minute-by-minute account of that hardest day as experienced by those involved – RAF and Luftwaffe aircrew, behind-the-scenes planners and strategists, and members of the public above whose towns and villages the battle was waged. The author’s exhaustive research was indeed timely because many of those he interviewed during the 1970s are no longer alive.

Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940

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Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9781853673757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (737 download)

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Book Synopsis Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940 by : Alfred Price

Download or read book Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940 written by Alfred Price and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Britain had already been raging across the skies for two months when on 15 September 1940 - commemorated each year since as 'Battle of Britain Day' - the Luftwaffe mounted two huge daylight raids on London. Dr Alfred Price's definitive book, based on interviews with the people involved as well as official records and documents, is the only full-scale work on the events of this pivotal day.

Battle Over Britain

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Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Book Synopsis Battle Over Britain by : Francis K. Mason

Download or read book Battle Over Britain written by Francis K. Mason and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Defeat the Few

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472839153
Total Pages : 387 pages
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Book Synopsis To Defeat the Few by : Douglas C. Dildy

Download or read book To Defeat the Few written by Douglas C. Dildy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only part of the story. The results of an air campaign cannot be measured in terms of territory captured, cities occupied or armies defeated, routed or annihilated. Successful air campaigns are those that achieve their intended aims or stated objectives. Victory in the Battle of Britain was determined by whether the Luftwaffe achieved its objectives. The Luftwaffe, of course, did not, and this detailed and rigorous study explains why. Analysing the battle in its entirety in the context of what it was – history's first independent offensive counter-air campaign against the world's first integrated air defence system – Douglas C. Dildy and Paul F. Crickmore set out to re-examine this remarkable conflict. Presenting the events of the Battle of Britain in the context of the Luftwaffe's campaign and RAF Fighter Command's battles against it, this title is a new and innovative history of the battle that kept alive the Allies' chances of defeating Nazi Germany.

Invasion, 1940

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Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Book Synopsis Invasion, 1940 by : Derek Robinson

Download or read book Invasion, 1940 written by Derek Robinson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What stopped Hitler in 1940 - why did he not attempt to invade Britain? And if he had, would he have been successful? Most of us would answer that "The Few" of Fighter Command saved Britain from certain invasion, because every historian of World War Two, from Winston Churchill onwards, has said so. Yet in this fresh look, Derek Robinson argues that the Battle of Britain alone could not have been why Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion, was scrapped. The greater obstacle was a force that both Churchill and Hitler failed to acknowledge." "Robinson suggests that most accounts of 1940 are written as if the Channel and the Royal Navy did not exist. In fact, an inadequate German fleet was relying on the use of 1,000 flat-bottomed barges as landing craft - which even in a flat calm would have taken ten days to effect the complete landing. These cumbersome vessels would also have been sitting ducks for the Royal Navy, which at that time was still massive - 70 to 80 destroyers were ready and waiting in home waters." "The skill and courage of the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots who fought the Battle of Britain are not in question, and Robinson never downplays the extent of their sacrifice - he is the author of many acclaimed books depicting the lives of fighter pilots in both world wars. Here he challenges a verdict that has been in place for 50 years and his views will be unwelcome to some. But as well as relating the Battle of Britain with his trademark realism, Robinson now presents clear evidence to make us question our easy acceptance of the old story."--BOOK JACKET.

The Battle of Britain

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Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846034749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Britain by : Kate Moore

Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by Kate Moore and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the Imperial War Museum in London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this book brings one of the most important battles of World War II to life. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, contemporary art and propaganda posters, and accompanied by numerous first-hand accounts, The Battle of Britain captures the reality and the romance of a defining chapter in British history. Moreover, it offers a detailed analysis of the events immediately preceding the battle, the key strategic decisions by opposing commanders that altered the course of the battle, as well as the development of criticial weaponry and defenses that dramatically changed the way aerial combat was fought. Moore's book pays tribute to visionaries such as R. J. Mitchell and Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, who ensured that, rather than simply a victory snatched from the jaws of defeat, this was a battle for which Britain's Fighter Command was uniquely prepared. Such preparation nearly guaranteed that although the British were vastly outnumbered, they could confidently counter the German fighter planes and bombers that darkened the skies throughout the summer of 1940. It was this small band of men and women, covered in detail in this title, that were the first to successfully oppose the seemingly unstoppable tide of the Nazi war machine, irrevocably altering the course of the rest of the war.

Air Officer Commanding

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Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611689384
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Air Officer Commanding by : John T. LaSaine, Jr.

Download or read book Air Officer Commanding written by John T. LaSaine, Jr. and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Dowding may be described as the prime architect of British victory in the battle of Britain, and thus as one of a handful of officers and men most responsible for ensuring that Hitler's planned invasion of England never occurred. Dowding was born in 1882 at the apex of British imperial power and had an early career as a gunner on the fabled North-West Frontier of the British Indian Empire. During the first year of World War I, he served with distinction as a combat pilot in France, but his real test would come in 1936, when he was assigned the critical task of reorganizing the Air Defense of Great Britain as the first air officer commanding-in-chief of the new RAF Fighter Command. In that capacity he stood up to senior staff--and Winston Churchill--by preventing the dismantling of British air defenses during the Battle of France in the spring of 1940, defying pressure from the British Army, Britain's French allies, and His Majesty's Government to send the bulk of the RAF's front-line fighters to the Continent in what Dowding predicted would be a futile effort to stem the German onslaught. While holding back as many of his best fighter aircraft as he could, in June Dowding deployed 11 Group under his hand-picked lieutenant, Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, to repulse the Luftwaffe over Dunkirk, covering the evacuation of some 338,000 British and French troops from the Continent. During the three months of fighting known as the Battle of Britain, the integrated air defense system organized and trained by Dowding fought the vaunted Luftwaffe to a standstill in daylight air-to-air combat. In October, the Germans abandoned their attempt to win a decisive battle for air superiority over England, turning instead to the protracted campaign of attrition by nighttime area bombing known as the Blitz. In building, defending, and overseeing the operations of Fighter Command, Dowding was thus not only one of the master builders of air power, but also the only airman to have been the winning commander in one of history's decisive battles.

The Battle of Britain

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Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908273917
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis The Battle of Britain by : Jon Lake

Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by Jon Lake and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1940, the most important battle in the history of air warfare was fought between the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe in the skies over southern Britain. Superbly illustrated, The Battle of Britain provides a gripping account of the conflict.

When Britain Saved the West

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018400X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis When Britain Saved the West by : Robin Prior

Download or read book When Britain Saved the West written by Robin Prior and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler’s Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain’s defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time—war diaries, combat reports, Home Security’s daily files, and much more—to uncover how Britain endured a year of menacing crises. The book reassesses key events of 1940—crises that were recognized as such at the time and others not fully appreciated. Prior examines Neville Chamberlain’s government, Churchill’s opponents, the collapse of France, the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz. He looks critically at the position of the United States before Pearl Harbor, and at Roosevelt’s response to the crisis. Prior concludes that the nation was saved through a combination of political leadership, British Expeditionary Force determination and skill, Royal Air Force and Navy efforts to return soldiers to the homeland, and the determination of the people to fight on “in spite of all terror.” As eloquent as it is controversial, this book exposes the full import of events in 1940, when Britain fought alone and Western civilization hung in the balance.

Britain and 1940

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415240765
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Book Synopsis Britain and 1940 by : Malcolm Smith

Download or read book Britain and 1940 written by Malcolm Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1940 was the most significant year in European history this century, this book examines what it meant for the people of Britain then and now. Malcolm Smith details the resultant influences that have constructed our national consciousness.

The Battle of Britain

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429919418
Total Pages : 1277 pages
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Book Synopsis The Battle of Britain by : James Holland

Download or read book The Battle of Britain written by James Holland and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new account of the Battle of Britain from acclaimed Cambridge historian James Holland The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months based on extensive new research from around the world including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the battle. If Britain's defenses collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe. With France facing defeat and British forces pressed back to the Channel, there were few who believed Britain could survive; but, thanks to a sophisticated defensive system and the combined efforts of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and the defiance of a new Prime Minister, Britain refused to give in. From clashes between coastal convoys and Schnellboote in the Channel to astonishing last stands in Flanders, slaughter by U-boats in an icy Atlantic and dramatic aerial battles over England, The Battle of Britain tells this epic World War II story in a fresh and compelling voice.

BATTLE OF BRITAIN COMBAT ARCHIVE

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ISBN 13 : 9781906592851
Total Pages : 0 pages
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The Battle of Britain, July-September 1940

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis The Battle of Britain, July-September 1940 by : Marcel Jullian

Download or read book The Battle of Britain, July-September 1940 written by Marcel Jullian and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: