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    Summary of Michael Korda's With Wings Like Eagles
    Summary of Michael Korda's With Wings Like Eagles
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    #1 The Battle of Britain, which was the British attempt to stop Hitler from taking over Europe, has become a symbol of courage and defiance against a more powerful and warlike enemy. But today, it has lost none of its luster.

    #2 The Battle of Britain has come in for its share of revisionary history and debunking, though it has not been the subject of the same harsh criticism directed towards British motives and generalship in the American Revolutionary War, the Crimean War, or World War I.

    #3 The what ifs of history are always difficult to answer, and they usually involve supposing an alternative outcome to a historical event. The speculation about the Battle of Britain is of a different kind. Nobody denies that we won it, but we simply do not know how serious Hitler was about invading Britain.

    #4 The invasion was a sham, according to many people, including Derek Robinson, the author of Piece of Cake, a BBC series about a fictional fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain. The British were prepared and armed by midsummer to defeat the Germans on the ground.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMay 12, 2022
    ISBN9798822513259
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      #1

      The Battle of Britain, which was the British attempt to stop Hitler from taking over Europe, has become a symbol of courage and defiance against a more powerful and warlike enemy. But today, it has lost none of its luster.

      #2

      The Battle of Britain has come in for its share of revisionary history and debunking, though it has not been the subject of the same harsh criticism directed towards British motives and generalship in the American Revolutionary War, the Crimean War, or World War I.

      #3

      The what ifs of history are always difficult to answer, and they usually involve supposing an alternative outcome to a historical event. The speculation about the Battle of Britain is of a different kind. Nobody denies that we won it, but we simply do not know how serious Hitler was about invading Britain.

      #4

      The invasion was a sham, according to many people, including Derek Robinson, the author of Piece of Cake, a BBC series about a fictional fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain. The British were prepared and armed by midsummer to defeat the Germans on the ground.

      #5

      The idea that Hitler was a land animal who was uncomfortable with naval warfare is false. He did not hesitate to use the German navy in April 1940 in a daring amphibious assault on Norway, which took the Allies by surprise.

      #6

      The German army was prepared to cross the English Channel, but the Royal Air Force had to be crippled first. The Luftwaffe was responsible for making the first move, by destroying the RAF.

      #7

      The Luftwaffe was the third largest armed force in Nazi Germany. It was commanded by Hermann Göring, then still regarded as the second most important man in the Reich and as Hitler’s closest collaborator.

      #8

      The Luftwaffe was never subject to the same economies that the British Treasury imposed on the RAF. Göring, its founder and commander in chief, was a very powerful and aggressive collector of art.

      #9

      The German air force needed to move two Luftflotten to air bases in northeastern France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and a third to Norway. They would also need to lengthen and reinforce the airfields for heavily loaded bombers.

      #10

      The Battle of Britain was the result of the

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