Buy this book on-line PRICE**, ALFRED: : BATTLE OF BRITAIN: The Hardest Day - 18 AUGUST 1940.**LONDON.MACDONALD & JANE'S,1979. ISBN 0354012193.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to priced
dw/dj (the other issue was an export copy with no publisher's price to dw/dj - see my book ID rja2046).Colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap by Phillip Emms,and contemporary b/w scenic photograph (smoke from fires at Kenley airfield on 18 August,1940.); with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges.Subsequent removal of an assumed protective wrapper, has left light,slight,residue of 'ghost' sellotape marks to both top+bottom corners of both free endpapers.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread
copy? Sharp-cornered,generally clean,black
paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,
stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip
and lightly marked free endpapers as already noted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6- 223pp includes half-title+title pages,
contents+b/w maps+diagrams+b/w photographs
lists,introduction+author's notes,a prologue,7 chapters with a postscript, witnesses list,36pp contemporary b/w photographs throughout text,17 b/w maps+ diagrams,a bibliography,appendices(A-F)and an index.
Quite different from other books on the Battle of Britain,this is a fast-moving, intensely dramatic and entirely authentic account of the hardest-fought day of the battle when 68 British and 69 German aircraft were destroyed,a combined loss greater than any other day.
This detailed and descriptive narrative covers the 24 hours of 18 August 1940 seen
through the eyes of scores of British and German who took part in the air fighting over south-eastern England,or those on the
ground who became involved,unwittingly or
otherwise.Alfred Price,a leading aviation historian,spent three years of painstaking and intensive research in Great Britain and Germany to put together both sides of the story.The result,using interlocking accounts from the protagonists within a factual framework based on hitherto unpublished records from both sides,is an enthralling work of major historical importance which shatters some time- honoured myths.
Highly readable,full of human interest, well documented and well illustrated - many of the 93 photographs were taken on 18 August - this book will give the reader
an entirely new insight not only into the most significant day in one of the most dramatic and important battles in British history,but also into the battle as a whole and into the very nature of air fighting.
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