Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

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Originally Posted by Edward

After reading the publisher's synopsis of the book with its description of primary source German documents and eyewitness accounts, I am certainly interested in Dr. Taylor's Eagle Days.

However the first paragraph is pretty awkward and reads like a first draft by an intern.

“By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from capture at Dunkirk, only the Royal Air Force, supported by the country’s newly established radar system, now stood in the way of the country being invaded. . . . "

What's wrong with that?