The Right of the Line by John Terraine
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The Right of the Line
Summary
In 1939, the RAF was a relatively small and inadequate force for the task it would be called on to perform. By the war's end, it had taken up a place of honour in the armed forces. This is the history of that achievement, the men, the machines, the strategies and the politics.
The Right of the Line Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 The preparation: beginnings; disarmers and bombers; a modern air force; expansion; rearmament under way; the knock-out blow; Munich; coming of age, coming of war. Part 2 The test: North Sea tutorial; night bombing - Ludlow-Hewitt; Norway, 1940; crisis of battle - fighter cover, bomber offensive; the pay-off - Dowding protests; Dunkirk; 1940 catastrophe - the reckoning. Part 3 The strain: the Battle of Britain; the Battle of the Atlantic; the strategic air offensive. Part 4 The victory: the Mediterranean; the battle of the Atlantic; the strategic offensive; victory in Europe. Appendix: Western air plans, September 1, 1939; diversions of Bomber Command; the crisis of the U-boat war - British, Allied and neutral shipping sunk, January 1942 - May 1943; a mass air force; secretaries of state and chiefs of staff, 1933-45; Sir Charles Portal and the long-range fighter question.
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GOR001623154
9780340419199
0340419199
The Right of the Line by John Terraine
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton
1988-01-01
864
N/A
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