A summer bright and terrible : Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, radar, and the impossible triumph of the Battle of Britain
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Washington, D.C. : Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
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Book
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Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
940.5421 FISHER
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940.5421 FISHER
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Published
Washington, D.C. : Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
Physical Desc
xvi, 287 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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9781593760472
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-281) and index.
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Lord Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Head of Fighter Command, First Baron of Bentley Priory, lived in the grip of unseen spirits. In thrall of the supernatural, he talked to the ghosts of his dead pilots, proclaimed that Hitler was defeated only by the personal intervention of God, and believed in the existence of faeries. How could it be that such a man should be put in charge of evaluating technical developments for the British air ministry? Yet it was he who brought the modern multi-gunned fighter into existence. And he insisted that his scientists investigate the mysterious invisible rays that would prove to be the salvation of Britain: radar.