Author: Collier, Richard,
Title: EAGLE DAY - The Battle of Britain August 6 - September 15 1940.
Description: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1966, 2nd imp., 316pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in white and gilt at spine, decorated in white upper board, pictorial dustwrapper by Peter Calcott, Eagle Day ('Adler Tag') was Göring's designated date on which the RAF would finally crumble and signal readiness for invasion; to this account of the Battle of Britain is added the orders of battle for both Fighter Command and the Luftwaffe for Eagle Day (13th August 1940), based on hundreds of interviews with those who took part, lightly bumped at upper tips, edges tanned and a little foxed, sello staining to pastedowns, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, creasing to upper hinge, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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