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Fighter : the true story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Novelist Len Deighton has written a military buff's delight: a meticulous history of the men and machines of the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force in their struggle over Britain in the summer of 1940. Deighton describes the Battle in the stark, no-nonsense terms of a chess player recounting a game; the reader will not feel what it was like to be a Spitfire or Messerschmitt pilot, but he will know all the cold, hard constraints of aero-technology and strategy under which those airmen operated. In layman's terms, Deighton examines the effective range, armaments, and carrying capacities of the planes, the primitive radar systems employed by both sides, and the advantages and disadvantages of different deployments of aircraft. An extensive air war was unprecedented in 1940, and Deighton renders well the suspense of the deadly trials and errors of both air forces as they groped with logistical problems never before encountered. As in all wars, actual combat was but a small part of the war effort; Deighton thus emphasizes the mundane but vital matters of aircraft production and pilot training in Britain and Germany. Although he gives fullest play to these strategic concerns, Deighton doe

Who reads Fighter : the true story of the Battle of Britain?

Author

Len Deighton

Publisher

Harpercollins (Mm); Harpercollins

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061008023

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.01 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14