The Battle of Britain

A Miscellany

Norman Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2015
Summersdale Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84953-742-1 (ISBN)

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Telling the stories of the commanders, the air raids, the pilots, the aircraft and the vital use of the world’s first radar air defence system, this comprehensive miscellany is a compelling guide to this most crucial of Second World War battles – the first to be fought solely in the air.

Have you ever wondered...

• How fast a Spitfire could travel?

• Which pilot won Fighter Command’s only Victoria Cross?

• What a ‘Stuka Party’ was?

Telling the stories of the commanders, the air raids, the pilots, the aircraft and the vital use of the world’s first radar air defence system, this comprehensive miscellany is a compelling guide to this most crucial of Second World War battles – the first to be fought solely in the air.

Norman Ferguson is an author of The First World War: A Miscellany and The Second World War: A Miscellany, as well as other books on history, aviation and modern culture. He has worked as a web editor and copywriter and lives in Edinburgh.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.7.2015
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	116 x 182 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-84953-742-9 / 1849537429
ISBN-13	978-1-84953-742-1 / 9781849537421
Zustand	Neuware