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

[FalkeEins]

I've bought the book. Its certainly well written and there's some considerable research behind it. I'm (sort of) enjoying it. But as some have pointed out, she's a 'professional' historian - this is not some random re-telling of the Luftschlacht um England. Hopefully this won't 'spoil' the ongoing review, but having been asked to think about the author's 'goal' in writing the book the way she did, I'm starting to understand why she has not used too many post-war accounts from those directly involved and preferred period diaries and letters.

No 'white-washing'.

Chapter 18 entitled 'Better liars than flyers' (not in quotation marks...although it should be) might indeed be described as 'revelatory' or 'ground-breaking'.

There, I've said it.

You can probably guess what's coming - in fact page 325 is barely believable and genuinely shocking....