Author: Deighton, Len (intro A. J. P. Taylor), Title: FIGHTER - The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 1977, 2nd imp., 304pp, 40pp half tone photo ills. and 33 in text figures and/or diagrams, coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, top edge coloured, coloured decorative headlands, the acclaimed and 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 how, even with superior numbers, Germany managed not to win, lightly rubbed and bumped at tips, edges tanned with faint foxing to fore-edge, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at tips, lettering at spine sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww2 aviation raf luftwaffe fighter battle bob history dowding
Price: GBP 15.00 = appr. US$ 21.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 45366
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