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Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her Simon & Schuster 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1204701. ISBN #0743260805 / 9780743260800. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her Simon & Schuster 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1204701. ISBN #0743260805 / 9780743260800. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons. By the beginning of 1945, American pilots were shooting down Japanese planes more than ten to one. The Japanese had so few metals left that the military had begun using wooden coins and clay pots for hand grenades. For the first time in 800 years, Japan faced imminent invasion. As Germany faltered, the combined strength of every warring nation gathered at Japan's door. Desperate, Japan turned to its most idealistic young men -- the best and brightest college students -- and demanded of them the greatest sacrifice. On the morning of May 11, 1945, days after the Nazi surrender, the USS Bunker Hill -- a magnificent vessel that held thousands of crewmen and the most sophisticated naval technology available -- was holding at the Pacific Theater, 70 miles off the coast of Okinawa. At precisely 9:58 a.m., Kiyoshi Ogawa radioed in to his base at Kanoya, 350 miles from the Bunker Hill, "I found the enemy vessels." After eighteen months of training, Kiyoshi tucked a comrade's poem into his breast pocket and flew his Zero five hours across the Pacific. Now the young Japanese pilot had located his target and was on the verge of fulfilling his destiny. At 10:02.30 a.m., as he hovered above the Bunker Hill , hidden in a mass of clouds, Kiyoshi spoke his last words: "Now, I am nose-diving into the ship." The attack killed 393 Americans and was the worst suicide attack against America until September 11. Juxtaposing Kiyoshi's story with the stories of untold heroism of the men aboard the Bunker Hill , Maxwell Taylor Kennedy details how American sailors and airmen worked together, risking their own lives to save their fellows and ultimately triumphing in their efforts to save their ship. Drawing on years of research and firsthand interviews with both American and Japanese survivors, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy draws a gripping portrait of men bravely serving their countries in war and the advent of a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombing, that nearly halted the most powerful nation in the world.
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Kernan, Alvin Unknown Battle Of Midway: The Destruction Of The American Torpedo Squadrons 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062116. ISBN #0300122640 / 9780300122640. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kernan, Alvin Unknown Battle Of Midway: The Destruction Of The American Torpedo Squadrons 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062116. ISBN #0300122640 / 9780300122640. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Battle of Midway is considered the greatest U.S. naval victory, but behind the luster is the devastation of the American torpedo squadrons. Of the 51 planes sent to attack Japanese carriers only 7 returned, and of the 127 aircrew only 29 survived. Not a single torpedo hit its target. A story of avoidable mistakes and flawed planning, The Unknown Battle of Midway reveals the enormous failures that led to the destruction of four torpedo squadrons but were omitted from official naval reports: the planes that ran out of gas, the torpedoes that didn t work, the pilots who had never dropped torpedoes, and the breakdown of the attack plan. Alvin Kernan, who was present at the battle, has written a troubling but persuasive analysis of these and other little-publicized aspects of this great battle. The standard navy tactics for carrier warfare are revealed in tragic contrast to the actual conduct of the battle and the after-action reports of the ships and squadrons involved.
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Kershaw, Alex Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice MJF 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183494. ISBN #1606711350 / 9781606711354. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kershaw, Alex Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice MJF 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183494. ISBN #1606711350 / 9781606711354. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population 3,000--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. They were part of the first wave of American soldiers to hit the sands of Normandy. Later that day, two more soldiers from the same small town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-one sons of Bedford killed--no other town in America suffered a greater one-day loss. It is a story that one cannot easily forget--and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. It was, and still is, Bedford's longest day. The Bedford Boys is the intimate true story of these young men and their friends and families in Bedford. It portrays a neighborhood of soldiers before and during the war--from the girlfriends they left behind to the buddies they made in basic training, from anxious barracks in England to the bloody beaches of Normandy. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives as well as on diaries and letters, Alex Kershaw's book focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the most poignant stories of World War II--the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.
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Kershaw, Alex Few, The: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the battle of Britain Da Capo Press 2006 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1190030. ISBN #0306813033 / 9780306813030. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kershaw, Ian The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 Penguin Books 2011 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1189695. ISBN #0143122134 / 9780143122135. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Keyssar, Helene; Pozner, Vladimir Remembering War: A U.S.-Soviet Dialogue hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or999253. ISBN #0195051262 / 9780195051261. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kiley, Anne; Pellechia, Thomas; Kiley, David Writing the War: Chronicles of a World War II Correspondent Prometheus Books 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117161. ISBN #1633881040 / 9781633881044. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kiley, Anne; Pellechia, Thomas; Kiley, David Writing the War: Chronicles of a World War II Correspondent Prometheus Books 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117161. ISBN #1633881040 / 9781633881044. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary As expansive as it is personal, this chronicle of World War II is a firsthand account by a journalist and the woman he would marry of the dramatic events that engulfed the world in the middle of the twentieth century. The correspondence between Charles Kiley and Billee Gray also tells the poignant tale of two young people in love but forced apart by the circumstances of war. Edited by Charles and Billee's daughter, son, and son-in-law, this never-before-published compilation of letters is a striking example of the heroic, call-to-duty spirit that characterized "the greatest generation." Charles was a soldier-journalist for the U.S. Army's Stars and Stripes newspaper and reported on the war from London, Normandy, Paris, Reims, Belgium, and Germany. As the sole reporter allowed direct access to Eisenhower's staff, he was the only reporter on the scene when the German high command was negotiating its unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945. Among his army newspaper friends and colleagues was Andy Rooney, later CBS correspondent and 60 Minutes commentator. Billee, like many young women of her time, witnessed the war years from the home front and filled vital civilian roles--defense-industry plant worker, Red Cross volunteer, war bonds salesgirl, and civil defense plane-spotter--and wrote about it all in her letters to Charles. Peppered with fascinating details about soldiers' and civilians' lives, and including Stars and Stripes articles and personal photographs of the era, Writing the War is both important history and a tribute to two remarkable people as well as their extraordinary generation.
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Kimball, Warren F. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War William Morrow & Co 1997 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1192303. ISBN #0688085237 / 9780688085230. (keywords: CHURCHILL WINSTON SIR 1874 1965) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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King, Benjamin; Kutta, Timothy J. Impact: The History Of Germany's V-weapons In World War II Da Capo Press 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092622. ISBN #1885119518 / 9781885119513. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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King, Benjamin; Kutta, Timothy J. Impact: The History Of Germany's V-weapons In World War II Da Capo Press 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092622. ISBN #1885119518 / 9781885119513. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary During World War II, when the V1s and V2s soared in their thousands against London, Antwerp and other targets, they were launched by Germans who had made a technological leap over their Allied scientific counterparts. Ultimately, as the German front fell back, the V launch-sites and factories were overrun. Nevertheless, for a time, the Germans had wielded a revolutionary new weapon that we now know pointed to the future of warfare. This intensely researched book overturns many of the myths about the V-weapons by tracing their development under pressure, their employment in combat, and the massive effect their existence had on operations.
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Kitchens, James H.; Nalty, Bernard C. Flying Aces: Aviation Art of World War II Barnes & Noble Publishing, Inc. 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1165988. ISBN #0760741166 / 9780760741160. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kix, Paul The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Harper Perennial 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1176260. ISBN #0062322532 / 9780062322531. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kleiss, N. Jack "Dusty"; Orr, Timothy; Orr, Laura Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers The Battle Of Midway William Morrow 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183781. ISBN #0062692054 / 9780062692054. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kleiss, N. Jack "Dusty"; Orr, Timothy; Orr, Laura Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers The Battle Of Midway William Morrow 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1183781. ISBN #0062692054 / 9780062692054. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary National Bestseller "An instant classic." Dallas Morning News 75 YEARS AGO, ONE DARING AMERICAN PILOT MAY HAVE CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY WHEN HE SANK TWO JAPANESE CARRIERS AT THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. j.g. "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan s Imperial Navy, which six months earlier had ruthlessly struck Pearl Harbor. The greatest naval battle in history raged around him, its outcome hanging in the balance as the U.S. desperately searched for its first major victory of the Second World War. Then, in a matter of seconds, Dusty Kleiss s daring 20,000-foot dive helped forever alter the war s trajectory. Plummeting through the air at 240 knots amid blistering anti-aircraft fire, the twenty-six-year-old pilot from USS Enterprise s elite Scouting Squadron Six fixed on an invaluable target the aircraft carrier Kaga, one of Japan s most important capital ships. He released three bombs at the last possible instant, then desperately pulled out of his gut-wrenching 9-g dive. As his plane leveled out just above the roiling Pacific Ocean, Dusty s perfectly placed bombs struck the carrier s deck, and Kaga erupted into an inferno from which it would never recover. Arriving safely back at Enterprise, Dusty was met with heartbreaking news: his best friend was missing and presumed dead along with two dozen of their fellow naval aviators. Unbowed, Dusty returned to the air that same afternoon and, remarkably, would fatally strike another enemy carrier, Hiryu . Two days later, his deadeye aim contributed to the destruction of a third Japanese warship, the cruiser Mikuma, thereby making Dusty the only pilot from either side to land hits on three different ships, all of which sank losses that crippled the once-fearsome Japanese fleet. By battle s end, the humble young sailor from Kansas had earned his place in history and yet he stayed silent for decades, living quietly with his children and his wife, Jean, whom he married less than a month after Midway. Now his extraordinary and long-awaited memoir, Never Call Me a Hero, tells the Navy Cross recipient s full story for the first time, offering an unprecedentedly intimate look at the "the decisive contest for control of the Pacific in World War II" New York Times and one man s essential role in helping secure its outcome. Dusty worked on this book for years with naval historians Timothy and Laura Orr, aiming to publish Never Call Me a Hero for Midway s seventy-fifth anniversary in June 2017. Sadly, as the book neared completion in 2016, Dusty Kleiss passed away at age 100, one of the last surviving dive-bomber pilots to have fought at Midway. And yet the publication of Never Call Me a Hero is a cause for celebration: these pages are Dusty s remarkable legacy, providing a riveting eyewitness account of the Battle of Midway, and an inspiring testimony to the brave men who fought, died, and shaped history during those four extraordinary days in June, seventy-five years ago.
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Klemperer, Victor I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 Random House 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1199386. ISBN #0679456961 / 9780679456964. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Klemperer, Victor I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 Random House 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1199386. ISBN #0679456961 / 9780679456964. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany. What makes this book so remarkable, aside from its literary distinction, is Klemperer's preoccupation with the thoughts and actions of ordinary Germans: Berger the greengrocer, who was given Klemperer's house "anti-Hitlerist, but of course pleased at the good exchange" , the fishmonger, the baker, the much-visited dentist. All offer their thoughts and theories on the progress of the war: Will England hold out? Who listens to Goebbels? How much longer will it last? This symphony of voices is ordered by the brilliant, grumbling Klemperer, struggling to complete his work on eighteenth-century France while documenting the ever- tightening Nazi grip. He loses first his professorship and then his car, his phone, his house, even his typewriter, and is forced to move into a Jews' House the last step before the camps , put his cat to death Jews may not own pets , and suffer countless other indignities. Despite the danger his diaries would pose if discovered, Klemperer sees it as his duty to record events. "I continue to write," he notes in 1941 after a terrifying run-in with the police. "This is my heroics. I want to bear witness, precise witness, until the very end." When a neighbor remarks that, in his isolation, Klemperer will not be able to cover the main events of the war, he writes: "It's not the big things that are important, but the everyday life of tyranny, which may be forgotten. A thousand mosquito bites are worse than a blow on the head. I observe, I note, the mosquito bites." This book covers the years from 1933 to 1941. Volume Two, from 1941 to 1945, will be published in 1999.
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Knauer, Kelly (editor) D-Day: 24 Hours That Saved the World Time Inc 2004 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1180154. ISBN #1932273220 / 9781932273229. (keywords: WORLD WAR 1939 1945 CAMPAIGNS) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Koehn, Ilse Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany Greenwillow 1977 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1192116. ISBN #0688841104 / 9780688841102. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Koerner, Brendan I. Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII Penguin Press HC, The 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021559. ISBN #1594201730 / 9781594201738. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Koerner, Brendan I. Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII Penguin Press HC, The 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021559. ISBN #1594201730 / 9781594201738. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Part history, part thriller, Now the Hell Will Start tells the astonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War II and who became that war s unlikeliest folk hero A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding playboy from the streets of Washington, D.C., who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle not because he yearned for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the United States Army during World War II. An African American G.I. assigned to a segregated labor battalion, Perry was shipped to South Asia in 1943, enduring unspeakable hardships while sailing around the globe. He was one of thousands of black soldiers dispatched to build the Ledo Road, a highway meant to appease China s conniving dictator, Chiang Kai-shek. Stretching from the thickly forested mountains of northeast India across the tiger-infested vales of Burma, the road was a lethal nightmare, beset by monsoons, malaria, and insects that chewed men s flesh to pulp. Perry could not endure the jungle s brutality, nor the racist treatment meted out by his white officers. He found solace in opium and marijuana, which further warped his fraying psyche. Finally, on March 5, 1944, he broke down an emotional collapse that ended with him shooting an unarmed white lieutenant. So began Perry s flight through the Indo-Burmese wilderness, one of the planet s most hostile realms. While the military police combed the brothels of Calcutta, Perry trekked through the jungle, eventually stumbling upon a village festooned with polished human skulls. It was here, amid a tribe of elaborately tattooed headhunters, that Herman Perry would find bliss and would marry the chief s fourteen-year-old daughter. Starting off with nothing more than a ten-word snippet culled from an obscure bibliography, Brendan I. Koerner spent nearly five years chasing Perry s ghost a pursuit that eventually led him to the remotest corners of India and Burma, where drug runners and ethnic militias now hold sway. Along the way, Koerner uncovered the forgotten story of the Ledo Road s black G.I.s, for whom Jim Crow was as virulent an enemy as the Japanese. Many of these troops revered the elusive Perry as a folk hero whom they named the Jungle King. Sweeping from North Carolina s Depression-era cotton fields all the way to the Himalayas, Now the Hell Will Start is an epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption. Yet it is also an exhilarating thriller, a cat-and-mouse yarn that dazzles and haunts.
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Kogon, Eugen The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 paperback. Previous owner embossed stamp present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185726. ISBN #0374529922 / 9780374529925. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Kogon, Eugen The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006 paperback. Previous owner embossed stamp present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185726. ISBN #0374529922 / 9780374529925. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to be reached intact was Buchenwald, in central Germany. American soldiers struggled to make sense of the shocking scenes they witnessed inside. They asked a small group of former inmates to draft a report on the camp. It was led by Eugen Kogon, a German political prisoner who had been an inmate since 1939. The Theory and Practice of Hell is his classic account of life inside. Unlike many other books by survivors who published immediately after the war, The Theory and Practice of Hell is more than a personal account. It is a horrific examination of life and death inside a Nazi concentration camp, a brutal world of a state within state, and a society without law. But Kogon maintains a dispassionate and critical perspective. He tries to understand how the camp works, to uncover its structure and social organization. He knew that the book would shock some readers and provide others with gruesome fascination. But he firmly believed that he had to show the camp in honest, unflinching detail. The result is a unique historical document--a complete picture of the society, morality, and politics that fueled the systematic torture of six million human beings. For many years, The Theory and Practice of Hell remained the seminal work on the concentration camps, particularly in Germany. Reissued with an introduction by Nikolaus Waschmann, a leading Holocaust scholar and author of Hilter's Prisons, this important work now demands to be re-read.
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Korda, Michael With Wings Like Eagles : a History of the Battle Harper 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1191360. ISBN #0061125350 / 9780061125355. (keywords: World War II History) (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Korda, Michael With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain Harper 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059143. ISBN #0061125350 / 9780061125355. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
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Korda, Michael With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain Harper 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059143. ISBN #0061125350 / 9780061125355. (filed under: World War 2 ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force often no more than nine hundred on any given day stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. Korda re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England, and at the same time perhaps for the first time traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. Korda deftly interweaves the critical strands of the story the invention of radar the most important of Britain's military secrets ; the developments by such visionary aircraft designers as R. J. Mitchell, Sidney Camm, and Willy Messerschmitt of the revolutionary, all-metal, high-speed monoplane fighters the British Spitfire and Hurricane and the German Bf 109; the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare and the prevailing belief that "the bomber will always get through" in the words of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin . As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, the central figure of Korda's book, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Fighter Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible. Dowding persevered despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught. Korda brings to life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict, from such major historical figures as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Herman G ring and his disputatious and bitterly feuding generals to the British and German pilots, the American airmen who joined the RAF just in time for the Battle of Britain, the young airwomen of the RAF, the ground crews who refueled and rearmed the fighters in the middle of heavy German raids, and such heroic figures as Douglas Bader, Josef Franti ek, and the Luftwaffe aces Adolf Galland and his archrival Werner M lders. Winston Churchill memorably said about the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Here is the story of "the few," and how they prevailed against the odds, deprived Hitler of victory, and saved the world during three epic mon
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