With Wings Like Eagles : The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain Paperback - 2010
by Korda, Michael
- Used
Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3,000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.
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Details
- Title With Wings Like Eagles : The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain
- Author Korda, Michael
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2010-01-19
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3963294-75
- ISBN 9780061125362 / 0061125369
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.52 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Library of Congress subjects Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations,
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.542
From the rear cover
In the summer of 1940, fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.
In this superb history of three epic months that saved the world, Michael Korda brilliantly re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England--while tracing, perhaps for the first time, the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that inexorably led to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. With Wings Like Eagles brings to vivid life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict--from Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Hermann Gring to the ground crews, the German pilots, the American volunteers, and the courageous airmen and airwomen of the RAF.
