ePub å Un Duel D'Aigles ï Peter Townsend
Dogfights in the sky ruthless political maneuvers legendary heroes of the air like Richth Much of this is a first person account of Townsend's early WW2 experience along with anecdotes from pilots and flight crew of both sides in the 1930s and up to September 1940 That is all excellent and the interleaving of Goering vs Dowding's decisions and the actions of Park Kesselring and co makes for great readingThe first 13rd of the book was tough going The detailed description of the politics of the RAF vs RN and RA then the development of the Luftwaffe in parallel were not well served by the style of interwoven descriptions The short statements about different individual pilots' lives just interrupt the narrative that is uneven Overall it's a good read especially once I started skipping over the overly detailed for me political historyBritain's shameful treatment of Dowding and Park is sad reading Leigh Mallory comes off poorly but that could be based on Townsend's obvious bias At any rate it's a first person account mixed with some well researched history of the interwar years Probably needed better editing like this review
Peter Townsend ï Un Duel D'Aigles reader
Un Duel D'AiglesOfen the Red Baron and Douglas Bader this book combines all of these colorful dramatic an Thorough first person account of the Battle of Britain