Eagle Day
the battle of britain august 6th - september 15th 1940
$41.07
- Paperback
412 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2015
Summary
Colliers chronicle of the desperate six weeks either side of 13th August 1940 when a few hundred pilots,navigators and gunners won one of the most decisive,as well as gallant, battles in the annals of war.Based on over 400 eye-witness accounts from Allied and German sources, this book gives a compelling account of history in the making.Over the English Channel, across southern Britain, and into the heart of the battle, experience confrontation at 18,000ft and trace the course of actions as th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910500255 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910500259 |
| Series: | Uniform Legends |
| Author: | Richard Collier |
| Publisher: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Uniform Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 412 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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This is a triumph of interviewing in which 434 Britons, Americans, Germans, Poles, Canadians etc, associated with the R.A.F. and the Luftwaffe, describe the six weeks during which the German air force hurled everything it had at England and broke its own spirit in failure. Kirkus Review of Books
About The Author
Richard Collier
Author of over 15 books, Richard Collier was born in Croydon, London. He joined the RAF in1942 and became War Associate Editor of Lord Mountbatten’s Phoenix Magazine for the Forces.After the war, he joined the Daily Mail as a feature writer.
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