The Battle of Britain

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• 1. The Battle of Britain 1940
• 2. The combatants
• 3. Strategy and fact
• 4. The fighting
• 5. The victory
• 6. Find out more
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Books

Air Power in the Age of Total War by John Buckley (University College London Press, 1999)

The Battle Re-thought by Henry Probert and Sebastian Cox (Air Life Publications, Shrewsbury, 1991)

About the author

Dr Chris Bellamy is reader in military and security studies at Cranfield University. Before this he was defence correspondent of the Independent, and reported from the Gulf War, Bosnia and Chechnya. He is associate editor of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Military History.

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Published: 2000-11-01