Battle of Britain - July 2002

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BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

D 786 .A5 1940
The Battle of Britain: An Air Ministry Record of the Great Days from August 8th to October 31st, 1940. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1941.

D 787 .B4
Bekker, Cajus. The Luftwaffe War Diaries. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
(See chapter 4, The Battle of Britain)

D 786 .B49
Bishop, Edward. Their Finest Hour: The Story of the Battle of Britain, 1940. New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.

D 786 .B78
Brickhill, Paul. Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain. New York: Ballantine Books, 1954.

D 743 .C3
Calvocoressi, Peter and Guy Wint. Total War: The Story of World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1972. (See index, Britain, Battle of)

D 771 .C513 v.3
Churchill, Winston S. The Ever-Widening War, 1941. New York: Norton, 2000.

D 743 .C48
----------. Memoirs of the Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. (See index, Britain, Battle of)

D 743 .C47 v.2
----------. Their Finest Hour. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.

D 756.5 .B7 C6
Clark, Ronald W. Battle for Britain: Sixteen Weeks That Changed the Course of History. New York: Franklin Watts, 1955.

DA 566 .C55 1996
Clarke, Peter. Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990. London: Allen Lane, 1996.

D 756.5 .B7 C56 2000
Clayton, Tim and Phil Craig. Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

D 786 .C65
Collier, Richard. Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain, August 6-September 15, 1940. New York: Dutton, 1966.

D 756.5 .B7 C66
Collier, Richard. Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain, August 6-September 15, 1940. 2nd ed. New York: Dutton, 1980.

D 743 .J3
Decisive Battles of World War II: The German View. New York: Putnam, 1965. (See pages 73-94, The Battle of Britain)

D 756.5 .B7 D3
Deighton, Len. Battle of Britain. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980.

D 756.5 .B7 D4
----------. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.

D 743 .D2
Dennis, Geoffrey Pomeroy. The World at War. London: Caxton Publishing Co., 1951.
(See volume II, pages 166-205)

D 743 .D82
Dupuy, Trevor N. Options of Command. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984.
(See pages 29-53, Battle of Britain)

D 786 .F56
Fleming, Peter. Operation Sea Lion: The Projected Invasion of England in 1940--An Account of the German Preparations and the British Countermeasures. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. (See index, Battle of Britain)

D 743 .F9
Fuller, J. F. C. The Second World War, 1939-1945: A Strategical and Tactical History. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. (See pages 83-89)

D 756.5 .B7 H6
Hough, Richard Alexander and Denis Richards. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II. New York: Norton, 1989.

MF/AD A240 390
Hudson, John L. The Luftwaffe of 1940 and the United States Air Force of 1991: Case Studies of the Strategic/Operational Connections in Air Warfare. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1991. (See chapter III)

D 756.5 .B7 J36 2000
James, T. C. G. and Sebastian Cox. The Battle of Britain. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000.

D 787 .J84
Jullian, Marcel. The Battle of Britain, July-September 1940. New York: Orion Press, 1967.

D 810 .C88 K34 1991
Kahn, David. Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

D 771 .K5 1997
Kieser, Egbert. Hitler on the Doorstep: Operation Sea Lion: The Plan to Invade Britain, 1940. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

D 810 .S7 L4
Lewin, Ronald. Ultra Goes to War: The First Account of World War II’s Greatest Secret, Based on Official Documents. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. (See index, Britain, Battle of)

MF/AD A215 722
Lorenz, Oliver E. The Battle of Britain: An Analysis in Terms of Center of Gravity, Culminating Point, Fog, Friction and the Stronger Form of War. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: School of Advanced Military Studies, Army Command and General Staff College, 1989.

D 786 .M22
Macmillan, Norman. The Royal Air Force in the World War. London: Harrap, 1942-1950. (See volume II)

D 756.5 .B7 M3
Mason, Francis K. Battle over Britain. New York: Doubleday, 1969.

D 786 .M18
McKee, Alexander. Strike from the Sky: The Story of the Battle of Britain. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

D 756.5 .B7 M6
Mosley, Leonard. Battle of Britain. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1977.

D 787 .M8
Murray, Williamson. Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1983. (See chapter II)

MF/AD A279 588
Neubauer, Kenneth P. Operational Leadership in Air Warfare: A Study of the Battle of Britain and Operation Desert Storm. Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1994.

U 102 .N4
Newman, James Roy. The Tools of War. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1942. (See index, Battle of Britain)

D 756.5 .B7 O84 2001
Overy, R. J. The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality. New York: Norton, 2001.

D 750 .P32
Parkinson, Roger. Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The War History from Dunkirk to Alamein, Based on the War Cabinet Papers of 1940 to 1942. New York: McKay, 1973. (See pages 68-91, The Battle of Britain; pages 92-124, Day of Eagles)

D 756.5 .B7 P2
----------. Summer, 1940: The Battle of Britain. New York: McKay, 1977.

D 756.5 .B7 P8
Price, Alfred. Battle of Britain: The Hardest Day, 18 August 1940. New York: Scribner’s, 1980.

D 787 .P8
----------. Luftwaffe: Birth, Life and Death of an Air Force. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969.

D 786 .R5
Richards, Denis and David Pilgrim. Royal Air Force, 1939-1945. London: H.M.S.O., 1953-54. (See volume I)

MF/AD A217 541
Spencer, John H. The Battle of Britain Revisited. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air War College, Air University, 1989.

MF/AD A280 686
Stoll, Hans G. Luftwaffe Doctrine and Air Superiority through World War Two. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air War College, Air University, 1994.

D 756.5 .B7 T3
Taylor, Telford. The Breaking Wave: The Second World War in the Summer of 1940. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.

D 786 .T38
Terraine, John. The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. (See pages 169-222)

D 756.5 .B7 T6
Townsend, Peter. Duel of Eagles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

D 756.5 .B7 T62
----------. The Odds Against Us. New York: Morrow, 1987.

D 756 .U68
U.S. Military Academy. Dept. of Military Art and Engineering. The Campaign in the West, 1940. West Point, NY, 1944.

D 810 .C88 W5
Winterbotham, F. W. The Ultra Secret. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. (See index, Battle of Britain)

D 785 .W6
Wood, Derek and Derek Dempster. The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-1940. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.

DA 89.6 .D6 W7
Wright, Robert. The Man Who Won the Battle of Britain. New York: Scribner’s, 1969.

MF/AD A391 202
Young, Thomas W. British Technology and Innovation in the Battle of Britain: Blueprint for the Future? Carlisle Barracks, PA: Army War College, 2001.

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PERIODICALS

Cox, Sebastian. "A Comparative Analysis of RAF and Luftwaffe Intelligence in the Battle of Britain, 1940." Royal Air Force Air Power Review, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn 2000, pp. 34-55.

Dick, Ron. "Battle of Britain." Air Power History, vol. 37, no. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 11-25.

Falcoff, Mark. "Was ‘Their Finest Hour’ a Lie?" "Global Affairs, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue, 1990, pp. 100-117.

Gray, Peter. "The Battle of Britain—So We Already Know the Story?" Royal Air Force Power Review, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn 2000, pp. 16-32.

Gropman, Alan L. "The Battle of Britain and the Principles of War." Aerospace Historian, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall-Sept. 1971, pp. 138-144.

Grynkewich, Alexus G. "‘Handmaid’ of the Army? The American Perception of German Bombardment Doctrine Prior to the Battle of Britain." Airpower Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 58-69.

Gunther, Hans Karl. "V-E Day + 3,652: Lessons of the German Defeat." Military Review, vol. 35, no 9, Dec. 1955, pp. 40-44.

Helminiak, Raymond. "White Eagles over London." World War II, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 1990, pp. 42-48.

Kammener, M.R. "The War for the British Empire." Military Review, vol. 20, no. 79, Dec. 1940, pp. 28-34.

Manchester, William. "Undaunted by Odds." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, vol. 10, no. 3, Spring 1998, pp. 82-97.

Murray, Williamson. "The Battle of Britain: How Did ‘the Few’ Win?" MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, vol. 2, no. 4, Summer 1990, pp. 8-21.

Preston, David L. "The Key to Victory: Fighter Command and the Tactical Air Reserves during the Battle of Britain." Air Power History, vol. 41, no. 4, Winter 1994, pp. 18-29.

Ring, Hans. "The Other Side of the Coin." Flying Review International, vol. 19, no. 1, Oct. 1963, pp. 24-26.

Yelton, David K. "British Public Opinion, the Home Guard, and the Defense of Great Britain." Journal of Military History, vol. 58, no. 3, July 1994, pp. 461-480.

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WEBSITES

Battle of Britain.com. Battle of Britain. Online. July 25, 2002. Available at:
http://www.burwell.org.uk/bob/main.htm

Battle of Britain Historical Society. Royal Air Force Fighter Command: Battle of Britain, 1940. 2000. Online. July 25, 2002. Available at:
http://www.battleofbritain.net/contents.html.

Imperial War Museum. Battle of Britain. Online Exhibitions. Online. July 25, 2002. Available at: http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/battle%20of%20britain/intro.htm

Royal Air Force (RAF) 2002. The Battle of Britain. 2000 . Online. July 25, 2002. Available at:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html

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