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

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by FalkeEins

Max Hastings told me a few years ago when I met him that he thought it was. As he put it, '..imagining new revelations and insights from WW II is a disease...' I don't suppose for one minute that Taylor's book will be any different. The publisher's 'hype' is ridiculous.

I see what he means but equally he seems to have relied on Hinsley et al's Official History where ULTRA is concerned, which is not the same as actually reading the messages. After all, where else would you find this crucial insight from July 1940?

CX/JQ/119, para. 38.

On 6/7 Intendant of Luftflotte 3 gave out that on Sunday 7/7 the first load of early potatoes would arrive at Granville. (A)