Battle of Brtitain Books

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen

John Vasco recommended Stephen Bungay. However, according to an amazon.co.uk review, Bungay has taken too many liberties in his interpretation of many documents. The examples provided in that review are most worrisome.

Personally, I thought his overall analysis was really illuminating and those one-star reviewers mostly seem to have expected a very different kind of book (e.g. a blow-by-blow account). what's more I can't remember any book on the Battle with a good word to say about Beppo Schmid's intelligence assessment of the RAF; Bungay isn't alone in this.

Happily it's been in paperback for years so it doesn't involve a big investment to read it and reach a view.

BTW, the interpretation that Steve's original claim "denigrates" those mentioned authors is, to be honest, as true as claiming the Merlin to be a rotary.

Please don't pour napalm on troubled waters.

P.S. This thread started off talking about the Halifax. Time to get back on-topic perhaps?