โ Richard Overy
๐ Fiction
๐
2004
๐ en-GB
โ 156 KB
๐ 3 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Battle of Britain: the myth and the reality
โ Scribed by Richard Overy
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 184614356X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
'No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ...Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject' Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement
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