Easton Press: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: WORLD WAR II: GREATEST AIR BATTLES: HOUGH

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Richard Hough and Denis Richards's "The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battles of World War II," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Period Photographs, published in 1989. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the book has camel tan French moire end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a blank attached bookplate on inside fly leaf. This title is a definitive account of the three-month battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. The Victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western Europe, the Nazi war leaders knew they had to defeat the Royal Air Force Fighter Command before they could invade the British mainland. Hough and Richards utilized first-person accounts of the battle whenever possible, rendering the battle scenes with cinematic intensity. WINSTON CHURCHILL said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Personalities include: Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Alan Deere from New Zealand; Johnny Kent from Canada; Group Captain Peter Townsend, Lord Beaverhook, Sir Cyril Newall, Keith Park, Sir Frederick Bowhill, Duke of Kent, Flight Lieutenant R.A. B. Learoyd, Sergeant Elizabeth Mortimer, Field Marshall Feidmarschall Albert Kesselring, Adolph Hitler, Air Vice-Marshall Sir W. Douglas, Air Vice-Marshall Sir Keith Park, Fieldmarschall Hugo Von Sperrie, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Wener Moelders, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Sir Cyrill Newall, John Hannah, He Heinkel, Adolf Galland, and WINSTON CHURCHILL. 413 pages, including an index----a RARE title. I offer combined shipping.

Price: 79.95 USD

Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

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