Fighter Command, 1939-1945

"RAF Fighter Command fought and won the most crucial battle of the Second World War. Had it failed in the summer of 1940 and the Luftwaffe won air superiority over southern Britain, the course of world history might have been very different. In August 1940, General Erwin Rommel, later commander of the famous Afrika Korps, was scheduled to lead his 7th panzer division ashore in Kent. Instead, Fighter Command's victory in the Battle of Britain ruled out any possibility of a German invasion across the Channel. And so Hitler turned east, launched his armies into Russia and transformed the course of the war." "Sixty years on, the number of survivors of the Battle of Britain, and of Fighter Command's subsequent campaigns, is sadly dwindling. Aviation historian David Oliver has interviewed many veterans in the course of his research. His new history of the wartime RAF is based on eyewitness testimony as well as a lifetime's study of the Second World War in the air."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved