The many not the few the stolen history of the Battle of Britain
"Immortalised in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before 'was so much owed by so many to so few', the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend. Britain was saved from German invasion by the gallant band of Fighter Command Pilots in their...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword / Christopher Booker
- Introduction
- Battle lines
- Let battle begin
- War of the people
- War and peace
- Closing the door
- War drums
- Eagle attack
- Redefining the war
- Countdown to the blitz
- Start of the blitz
- Rebellion
- Consequences
- Widening the war
- The battle won?
- To the victor the spoils
- Epilogue.
