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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