Eagle Day, Goering's Target Day for Smashing the RAF by Richard Collier: 1966 1 Ed HB
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Author: Richard Collier
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
Pagination: 316
Format: Hardback + DJ
Condition: Very good, clipped.
1st Edition.
The exhaustive research that went into this book is proven by the day-to-day accounts from both sides of The English Channel, giving an insight to the various trials, tribulations, hurdles and mistakes made.
The combatants "live again" through their own words, and takes from friends and colleagues.
The frustrations felt by the Luftwaffe pilots and officers at the decisions made, forcing their most effective aircraft to operate in a less effective "close escort" role is evident, and also explains the abrupt change in tactics which ironically, aided The Few by taking away the speed and height advantages previously used by the Me109 Fighters.
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n/a (MZ-91312)
W: 14.5cm (5.7")H: 21cm (8.3")D: 2cm (0.8")
Late 20th Century, WW2
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