The Battle of Britain Yearbook

Author: Peter R. March
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780750963909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The sky was suddenly very crowded, bullets being sprayed in every direction. I picked out a Heinkel 111 and squirted it with bullets and saw its starboard engine smoking. The sky was suddenly quite empty as though a hand had wiped it clean erasing all the furious, metal craft around me. It was time to return. The Battle of Britain was the RAF's finest hour. Peter R. March has created a memorable "yearbook" on this pivotal campaign, using contemporary and historical accounts to tell the story through the eyes of those who took part. Illustrated with contemporary photographs as well as a stunning color section showcasing the best of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, this beautiful book commemorates the pivotal summer of 1940.

Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Yearbook

Author: Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (Great Britain). International Air Tatoo Publishing Unit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description

The Battle of Britain in the Modern Age, 1965–2020

Author: Garry Campion
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030261107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media, popular culture, and through non-governmental heritage sites, often with financing from the National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund. Garry Campion evaluates the Battle’s revered place in British society and its influence on national identity, considering its historiography and revisionism; the postwar lives of the Few, their leaders and memorialization; its depictions on screen and in commercial products; the RAF Museum’s Battle of Britain Hall; third-sector heritage attractions; and finally, fighter airfields, including RAF Hawkinge as a case study. A follow-up to Campion’s The Battle of Britain, 1945–1965 (Palgrave, 2015), this book offers an engaging, accessible study of the Battle’s afterlives in scholarship, memorialization, and popular culture.

The Battle of Britain

Author: James Holland
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312675003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736

Book Description
"First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press"--T.p. verso.

The Battle of Britain

Author: Gillian Clements
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781445131238
Category : Britain, Battle of, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
'The Great Events' series provides a lively look at the facts behind important events in history. This book describes the conflict between the German Luftwaffe and RAF Fighter Command in 1940 during the Battle of Britain.

The Battle of Britain on Screen

Author: S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147422847X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
This new, updated edition of The Battle of Britain on Screen examines in depth the origins, development and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past 75 years. Paul MacKenzie explores both continuity and change in the presentation of a wartime event that acquired and retains near-mythical dimensions in popular consciousness and has been represented many times in feature films and television dramas. Alongside relevant technical developments, the book also examines the social, cultural, and political changes occurring in the second half of the 20th century and first decade of current century that helped shape how the battle came to be framed dramatically. This edition contains a new chapter looking at the portrayal of the Battle of Britain at the time of its 70th anniversary. Through its perceptive demonstration of how our memory of the battle has been constantly reshaped through film and television, The Battle of Britain on Screen provides students of the Second World War, 20th-century Britain and film history with a thorough and complex understanding of an iconic historical event.

The Battle of Britain

Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
"A concise, penetrating account....This stirring book inspires an admiration for British courage."--New York Times Book Review

The Battle of Britain

Author: Jon Lake
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552670071
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Battle of Britain

Author: Park Lane Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906969134
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
This book looks back at the battle that decided Britain's destiny. A conflict that had to be won to prevent Nazi Germany plunging Europe into a new dark age of tyranny, The Battle of Britain was one of the great epics of world history and won freedom for generations to come. Now this comprehensive and fully illustrated publication evokes the gripping drama of those momentous days of 1940.

The Battle of Britain

Author: R. J. Overy
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393020083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Analyzes the battle in detail from both sides, and discusses the significance of the end of Germany's string of victories for Britain and the world.