Eagle Days - Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

New research offers a revelatory insight of the men who flew Hitler's air war against Britain in the summer of 1940.

About the author

Dr Victoria Taylor, BA (Hons), MRes, AFHEA is an award-winning aviation historian who completed her PhD thesis on the Luftwaffe and National Socialism in the Third Reich at the University of Hull and Sheffield Hallam University. She has contributed to numerous popular history magazines such as BBC History Extra, Iron Cross Magazine and Britain at War. Victoria sits on the Advisory Board for the cross-party Spitfire AA810 restoration project in the House of Lords and is an Assistant Editor for the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Journal of Aeronautical History. Eagle Days is her first non-fiction book.

Product details

• Authors: Taylor Victoria
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.09.2025
• EAN: 9781804549995
• ISBN: 978-1-80454-999-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 238 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 674 g
• Illustrations: 1 x 8 black and white & 1 map
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Political Geography, Air forces and warfare, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space