1968
First Published
4.14
Average Rating
316
Number of Pages
Collier's chronicle of the Battle of Britain, drawing heavily on eyewitness accounts from RAF and Luftwaffe combatants, gives a compelling account of history in the making. Over the English Channel, across southern Britain, and into the heart of the savagely fought confrontation, go where the commanders made their decisions, along with those who fought and experienced this tumultuous time. Trace the course of actions as they unfolded between August and mid-September 1940—a brief period that helped determine the world's fate.
Avg Rating
4.14
Number of Ratings
145
5 STARS
40%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Richard Collier
Author · 11 books
British historian, was born in London, England in 1924. He joined the Royal Air Force at eighteen after that, as a war correspondent, he traveled throughout the Far East. He has worked on numerous British and American magazines and has written more than half a dozen books about the Second World War. Few of them are: The sands of Dunkirk, 1961, Duce! A biography of Benito Mussolini, 1971, and The war in the desert, 1977.
