Author: Deighton, Len (intro A. J. P. Taylor),
Title: FIGHTER - The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
Description: Book Club Associates, London, 1978, club edn., 303pp, 16pp photo ills. and charts, maps, etc., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, comprehensive account of the Battle of Britain, with an examination of pre-WW2 air defence strategy, a biographical sketch of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding - the C in C of RAF Fighter Command, the aircraft, radar and operational control, a day by day account of the Battle with the tactics employed and the results (stripped of contemporary propaganda enhancement), and an explanation of how, with superior numbers, Germany managed not to win, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, lower tip upper bd. sl. bumped, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, spine sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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