The Battle of Britain

  • The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality
    The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality
    By Richard Overy

    The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940.

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By Richard Hough, Denis Richards

    Watson-Watt was able to produce a paper showing the possibilities of using radio waves not to destroy aircraft, but to detect them. This described lines of research ten years earlier in which the height of the ionosphere above the ...

  • The Battle of Britain
    By Maureen Hill

    The Battle of Britain

  • The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II
    The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II
    By Richard Alexander Hough, Denis Richards

    One with painful experience of all this was Group Captain Victor Goddard,* among the last of the Component officers to leave France. He attributed the Army's hostility in part to the extreme inability, even reluctance, ...

  • The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
    The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
    By James Holland

    Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence (Barrie & Jenkins, 1975) Luck, Hans von, Panzer Commander (Cassell, 2002) MacGregor Burns, James, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom 1940– 1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ...

  • The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
    The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
    By James Holland

    The historian author of Italy's Shadow presents an account of the pivotal World War II battle based on extensive interviews with people on both sides, offering insight into how the fight was won and the potential of alternate scenarios. 25 ...

  • The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality
    The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality
    By Richard Overy

    "A concise, penetrating account....This stirring book inspires an admiration for British courage."—New York Times Book Review

  • The Battle of Britain: An Epic Conflict Revisited
    The Battle of Britain: An Epic Conflict Revisited
    By Christer Bergström

    This book contains a large number of dramatic eyewitness accounts, even as it reveals new facts that will alter common perceptions of the battle.

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By John Frayn Turner

    The Battle of Britain

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By Alex Woolf

    This book explores the strategies, technology, and long-term consequences of a fierce battle that changed the course of World War II.

  • The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II
    The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II
    By Richard Hough, Denis Richards

    With a finely-struck balance of historical background and dramatic renderings of RAF and Luftwaffe engagements over the English countryside, Hough and Richards offer a history that is at once deep and wide-ranging.

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By Quentin Reynolds

    The Battle of Britain

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By Jon Lake

    The book provides a wealth of information on the events of that infamous summer of 1940. [This is a text-only ebook edition.]

  • The Battle of Britain: Air Defence of Great Britain
    The Battle of Britain: Air Defence of Great Britain
    By T.C.G. James

    This is the second volume of the classified history of air defence in Great Britain.

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By Kate Moore, The Imperial War Museum

    Lavishly illustrated with photographs, contemporary art and posters, and accompanied by numerous first-hand accounts, this is a volume that captures the reality of a defining chapter in British history.

  • The Battle of Britain: New Edition
    The Battle of Britain: New Edition
    By Richard Overy

    Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ... the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject' Noble ...

  • The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare
    The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare
    By Richard Townshend, Bickers

    However, these illusions of invulnerability were soon to be shattered in whirling combats over southern England in the conflict that would be known as the Battle of Britain.

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By Nigel Cawthorne

    It was touch and go whether the nation could survive. This landscape-format book presents an incredible pictorial history of the Battle of Britain.

  • The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain
    By James Holland

    Had Britain's defences collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe and been able to turn his full attention east to the Soviet Union. This book tells this most epic of stories from all sides, drawing on extensive new research.

  • The Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe Blitz
    The Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe Blitz
    By Philip Kaplan

    It is quite plain that Herr Hitler could not admit defeat in his air attack on Great Britain without sustaining most ... “A vast and admirable system of salvage, directed by the Ministry of Aircraft Production, ensures the speediest ...