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Chargement... With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain (2009)par Michael Korda
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I thought it was a good book regarding the Battle of Britain. Korda discusses the history of the organizations (Luftwaffe & RAF Fighter Command), the machines that would do most of the fighting (Hurricane, Spitfire, ME109), and the personalities (mainly Goering & Dowding), as well as covering the major events of what we now think of as the Battle of Britain. Korda's writing does get rather detailed and a bit confusing at times, and he does tend to overkill the Dowding-worship. I haven't read a lot of Battle of Britain-only books, so perhaps much of what is in this book is repeated in others, but I thought overall it was very good. This is an excellent account of the Battle of Britain, fought in the air over Kent in 1940. I recently read one of Churchill's books that dealt with the same event and it was interesting to get another viewpoint, this one primarily in support of Hugh Dowding who was about to retire when war started. When the Air Ministry tried to remove him from Fighter Command in 1940, Churchill fought to keep him, recognizing that he was "one of their best men". His exceptional organization enabled him to maintain supply of replacement aircraft and air crew, as well as a fighter reserve during the battle. He has rightly been given credit for the victory of the Battle of Britain, which has developed legendary status, joining the Armada, Trafalgar, and Waterloo. My version was an audiobook with outstanding narration by John Lee. 5576. With Wings Like Eagles A History of the Battle of Britain, by Michael Korda (read 23 Aug 2018) Although I read a book by Richard Hough entitled The Battle of Britain on 2 Dec 2009 that was not as good a book as this one. This book, published in 2009, tells the story of the battle in 1940 . The first hundred pages or so spend a lot of time talking of the airplanes and technical details of such. Then the book does an adequate job relating the story of the air war in Britain in 1940, culminating in the events of September 15, 1940, which events caused Hitler to decide not to invade England but to attack Russia instead. I think it is clear that if Hitler had thrown the huge force that he used against Russia first against England he would have occupied England, thus utterly changing the course of World War II. This book is detailed on the battle of Britain up to Sept 15, 1940, and then is much less detailed on the air war against England after that date, even though some 50,000 English civilians were killed in the time after Sept 15. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:Michael Kordaâ??s brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Forceâ??often no more than nine hundred on any given dayâ??stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Fighter Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible. Dowding perseveredâ??despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infightingâ??to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught. Korda brings to life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict, from such major historical figures as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Herman Göring (and his disputatious and bitterly feuding generals) to the British and German pilots, the American airmen who joined the RAF just in time for the Battle of Britain, the young airwomen of the RAF, the ground crews who refueled and rearmed the fighters in the middle of heavy German raids, and such heroic figures as Douglas Bader, Josef FrantiÅ¡ek, and the Luftwaffe aces Adolf Galland and his archrival Werner Mölders. From the Compa Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding, which led to led to England not being invaded in WWII by the Nazi war machine. ( )