Bloody Summer (eBook)

The Irish at the Battle of Britain

Dan Harvey (Autor)

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2020
124 Seiten
Merrion Press (Verlag)
978-1-78537-327-5 (ISBN)

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Strategy analysis combined with the personal stories of those Irishmen involved in one of the greatest air battles in history.

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The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside all before them and were perched on the northern coastline of France. Outright victory over all of Europe was impeded only by the expanse of the English Channel. The supremely confident, yet-to-be defeated Luftwaffe (German Air Force) were eager for continued action, to claim air superiority and victory over an outnumbered RAF and clear the skies for the amphibious invasions of Britain and Ireland. It was vital that the RAF deny them, and so a ferocious and highly strategic aerial battle began that was to rage for more than three months. Among those in the RAF s Spitfire and Hurricane fighter squadrons were Irishmen, who were in the thick of the aerial exchanges, daring dog-fights , and intrepid interceptions of German bombers. A Bloody Summer: The Irish at the Battle of Britain for the first time tells the true and full story of their heretofore underestimated involvement in this epic aerial encounter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2020
• Verlagsort: Kildare
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aircraft • AirForce • air power superiority • allies • An Cosantóir • ardennes offensive • Atlantic Wall • band of brothers • battle of attrition for Normandy • Battle of Britain • Battle of the Bulge • Bayeux • Belsen • Bernard Law Montgomery • bigot • bocage • bomber plane • Bouncing Betty • bridge too far • British Army • Caen • Cambes • Canadian army • Carentan • Carl Spaatz • Casablanca Conference • chaplains • Churchill • codebreaking • Cold War • counter-intelligence • D-Day • d-day invasion • d-day landings • Dieppe • Eisenhower, • El Alamein • Emergency Powers Order • enigma code • Épron • Erwin Rommel • Far From the Short Grass • First World War • five came back • French Resistance • friendly fire • German Army • german pows • Gestapo • Goebbels • Gold Beach • Hermanville War Cemetery • Hitler • Hitler Youth • International Red Cross • Irish agents • Irish codebreaker • Irish Defence Forces • Juno Beach • Landing Craft Tank • Legion d'Honneur • Legion of Merit, • liberation • liberation of Paris • Liverpool 8th Irish Battalion at War • Lord Killanin • Luckenwalde POW Camp • Luftwaffe • michael morris • Military • military cross • military history • military planning • Military Strategy • modified tanks • Mulberry harbours • Museum of Man • No Better Place to Die • OB West • Operation Overlord • paratroop • Pathé • Peacekeeping • Pegasus Bridge • POWs • RAF • Ranville War Cemetery • Rhine Crossing • Robert Capa • Royal Navy • Rundstedt • Saint-Charles-de-Percy • Sainte-Mère-Église • Saint-Lô • Saving Private Ryan • Second World War • Sonnenburg • Special Operations Executive • Spielberg • Stalingrad • St Leger Aldworth • Strategy • supply line logistics • Sword Beach • The dirty dozen • the Longest Day • The Quiet Man • To Hell and Back • U-boats • unforgiven • united states army • US Army • Utah Beach • Victoria Cross • war • war casualties • wwi • WWII
• ISBN-10: 1-78537-327-7 / 1785373277
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78537-327-5 / 9781785373275