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Originally Posted by John Vasco
'Cornerstone of the next generation of Battle of Britain historiography.'
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The humility and sense of proportion just shine through, don't they?
Quote:
Originally Posted by John Vasco
'I didn't want this to be a nice book'
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Writing about a series of events in which thousands of people died or were seriously injured, that particular objective can't have been unduly challenging.
[Not thinking the Battle of Britain was nice comes easy to me, perhaps: on 17 September 1940 my Grandparents and my Dad (then 12) got back from the cinema to find themsleves bombed out while next door four brothers aged 3, 8, 12 and 17 had been killed.]