With Wings Like Eagles
Subtitle: A History of the Battle of Britain
Publisher: Harper
Published: January 6, 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780061125355
Subjects: History -- Europe -- England -- 20th Century; History -- Military -- Aviation; History -- Military -- World War II -- Europe
Description: Michael Korda traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle.
Table of contents: title: The bomber will always get through; title: To England, all eyes were turned. All that has gone now. Nothing has been done in 'the years that the locust hath eaten'; title: I can't understand why Chicago gangsters can have bulletproof glass in their cars, and I can't get it in my Spitfires!; title: The other side of the hill; title: The first act : Dunkirk and the Dowding letter; title: Round one : "Der Kanalkampf"; title: Round two : sparring; title: Adlerangriff, August 1940; title: The hardest days : August 16 through September 15; title: The turning point