Battle of Britain
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References
Books
- A Question of Honor. The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II, Lynne Olson & Stanley Cloud. (Knopf, 2003)
- Battle of Britain, Len Deighton, Max Hastings (Jonathan Cape, 1980) ISBN 0224018264
- Battle of Britain Day, Alfred Price (Sidgewick and Jackson, 1990)
- Britain's Shield: Radar and the Defeat of the Luftwaffe, David Zimmerman (Sutton Publishing, 2001)
- Eagle Day, Richard Collier (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966)
- Fighter, Len Deighton (Jonathan Cape, 1977)
- The Battle of Britain, T.C.G. James (Frank Cass, 2000)
- The Battle of Britain (His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1941)
- The Battle of Britain: The Jubilee History, Richard Hough and Denis Richards (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989)
- The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare, Richard Townshend Bickers (Salamander Books, 1999)
- The Battle of Britain: Dowding and the First Victory, 1940, John Ray (Arms and Armour, 1994)
- The Battle of Britain: July - October, 1940, David Alan Johnson (Combined Publishing, 1998)
- The Burning Blue, Ed. Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang (Pimlico, 2000)
- The Hardest Day, Alfred Price (Janes' Publishing, 1979)
- The Luftwaffe War Diaries, Cajus Bekker (Gerhard Stalling Verlag, 1964)
- The Luftwaffe 1933-1945: Strategy For Defeat, Williamson Murray (Quantum Publishing, 2003)
- The Most Dangerous Enemy, Stephen Bungay (Aurum, 2000)
Movies
- Battle of Britain is also the title of a 1969 film with Michael Caine - see Battle of Britain (film).
- Angels One-Five is a 1954 film starring Jack Hawkins that inducts the audience into the mysteries of the Fighter Command plotting room.
- Dark Blue World is a 2001 Czech-made movie about the lives of Czechoslovak pilots serving in the RAF during the battle.
- Reach for the Sky the biopic of legless air ace Douglas Bader starring Kenneth More and is a very good account of events from the perspective of a fighter pilot.
Video games
- Battle of Britain
- Spitfire '40s
- Warbirds -BOB Campaign - Multiplayer Online Simulation
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Background |
| ► | Luftwaffe strategy |
| ► | The Dowding System |
| ► | Battle of the beams |
| ► | Luftwaffe tactics |
| ► | RAF tactics |
| ► | Phases of the Battle |
| ► | Aftermath |
| ► | Foreign contribution |
| ► | See also |
| ► | References |
| ► | External links |
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