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Originally Posted by Jim Oxley
Another book that I would strongly recommend be on everyone's shelf is "The Battle Of Britain-New Perspectives", by John Ray.
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Just to clear up matters, but is that the same book as:
The Battle of Britain
Dowding and the First Victory, 1940
John Ray
Sounds like it is. Might be that this is the name given to the paparback I bought published by Cassell, and your's is the original Arms&Armour title?
Your description sounds more or less the same.
I'll throw in my 2c., certainly not the best Battle of Britain book (can't help it but I still love the Mason book), but one that is very interesting for its difference:
Who Won the Battle of Britain
H.R. Allen
Don't expect the author to write about a German victory, but his analysis is different, sometimes rightly so, sometimes only with hindsight.
Personally I found the Battle of Britain introduction by Prien and his fellow writers to be briliant in their
Die Jagdverbände... 4/I & II, especially their statistical conclusions with regard to the picture we've build based on previous (autobiographical) work and movies.