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I added to my thesis to produce Luftwaffe Fighter Bombers over Britain
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And it's greatly to your credit that it reads like a proper book. I've read a few theses about Second World War aviation (they're often online at the university concerned) and books based on them. The prevailing academic conventions seem to result in something a long way from anything that an 'outsider' would enjoy reading or even learn much from. Much of the object seems to be demonstrating how thoroughly familiar you are with the work already done by others in the field. For example, you can download Dr. Taylor's 'Après moi, le déluge : redressing the wartime and postwar mythologization of Operation CHASTISE in Britain' here:
https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221081
To me, it just seemed that far more words were devoted to what other writers said (or didn’t) about the raid rather than presenting anything new that she might have unearthed from her own research.