The Battle of Britain (Osprey General Aviation)

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Автор: Kate Moore

Название: The Battle of Britain (Osprey General Aviation)

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Год: 2015

Формат: True PDF

Страниц: 199

Размер: 23 Mb

Язык: English

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The Battle of Britain offers an in-depth assessment of the situation leading up to the summer of 1940, the strategies employed by the adversaries and the brutal aerial battle itself. In 1940 Britain was an island under siege. The march of the Nazi war machine had been unrelenting: France and Belgium had quickly fallen and now the British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone to counter the grave threat. However, their fate would not be decided by armies of millions but by a small band of fighter pilots. It was on their shoulders that Britain's best chance of survival rested. Above the villages and cities, playing fields and market towns, the skies of southern England were the scene of countless dogfights as the fledgling Fighter Command duelled daily against the might of the Luftwaffe.