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Re: Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Not looking through anything with 'Churchill goggles' at all.
Just this part of his speech from 18th June 1940: 'What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.'
And as you say, Nick, that is a good enough description for me.
Once they started night bombing against various cities, the Battle of Britain, as a term used to indicate the subjugation of the RAF day fighter force and lead to invasion in whatever manner, was over. The Germans can dress it up any way they wish. They failed. They lost. And it didn't trickle on into June 1941.
By the way, that's a great link in your post #188.
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