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Zusatztext "Regardless of whether you are one of the lucky few ever to have flown a Spitfire! or your parents not yet born in 1940! Michael Korda’s reliving of all the exhilaration! heroism! fear! and epochal significance of the ‘Battle of Britain’ will enthrall you. He restores the name of its principal architect! ‘Stuffy’ Dowding! to its proper pinnacle! and even has unexpected! but just! praise for Neville Chamberlain. His mastery of aero-technics is phenomenal! and no one can make an exciting! and complex! tale more understandable; quite simply the best book I have read this year." Informationen zum Autor Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York. Klappentext In the summer of 1940, fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. In this superb history of three epic months that saved the world, Michael Korda brilliantly re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England—while tracing, perhaps for the first time, the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that inexorably led to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. With Wings Like Eagles brings to vivid life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict—from Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring to the ground crews, the German pilots, the American volunteers, and the courageous airmen and airwomen of the RAF. Zusammenfassung “Bold and refreshing… Korda writes with great elegance and flair.” — Wall Street Journal 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 recreates the intensity of combat in the “long! delirious! burning blue” of the sky above southern England and! perhaps! for the first time! traces the entire complex web of political! diplomatic! scientific! industrial! and human decisions that led inexorably to the world’s first! greatest! and most decisive air battle. Winston Churchill memorable 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 months in 1940. ...
