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Michael Korda, With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain

4 posted on 08/17/2010 4:58:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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5 Suburbs Raided – 2-3
R.A.F. Casualties 4,300, 1,854 of Them Missing – 2
The International Situation – 3
Berlin is Exultant – 4-5
King Congratulates R.A.F. On Exploits Against Foe – 5
Dead and Injured Civilians taken From Debris of London Suburbs – 5-7
Churchill Reported Favoring U.S. Leases – 5
U.S. is Negotiating for British Bases, Plan with Canada – 7-8
Italy Again Raided by British Planes – 9-10
R.A.F. Intensifies Bombing in Africa – 10-11
Southeast Towns in England are Hit – 11
Croydon Bombers All Brought Down – 12
Briton Sees Nazis Balked by Fliers – 12
Famine in Belgium by 1941 is Feared – 12-13
Hungary Presents Claims to Rumania – 13
Swedes Reported Firing Upon Planes – 13
Battle of Britain Near Peak (by Hanson W. Baldwin) * – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 15-16
American War Observers in London – 16

* Baldwin wins high marks for this effort. I don’t see much in his analysis that will be contradicted by historians with the benefit of 70-year hindsight.

5 posted on 08/17/2010 4:59:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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