7th July 2018, 16:38
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 2,917
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Re: The Other Battle of Britain: 1940: Bomber Command's Forgotten Summer
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Originally Posted by Col Bruggy
Hello,
"Forgotten", by whom? Larry Donnelly DFM, gave an excellent account of Bomber and Coastal Command activities during the BoB period in his, The Other Few: The Contribution made by Bomber and Coastal Aircrews to the Winning of the Battle of Britain (Red Kite, 2004). Some of the contributors to Donnelly's work; Simon Parry, Mark Postlethwaite, John Foreman, Theo Boiten, Stephen Flower, Alistair Goodrum, Chris Goss, Zdenek Hurt, Andy Saunders, Ray Sturtivant, Roy Conyers Nesbit, Andy Thomas, Jiri Rajlich and Ron Mackay, Not exactly "Lightweights"!
Col.
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I would say forgotten by most people, especially the editors.
I would say that for one book related to Bomber and/or Coastal Command during the BoB period, tens or hundreds of books will tell the Fighter Command story.
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