Slessor, John, Sir, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. The Central Blue-Recollections and Reflections. London, Cassell and Co., 1956. 709 p.
Chapter XI. The Summer of Calamity, pp 281-313.
See Index for subjects: Britain, Battle of; Air Defence, night; Air Power, development of; Churchill, Rt.Hon. Sir Winston on RAF, Their Finest Hour; Dowding, Lord; Fighter Command; Galland, General Adolf; German Air Force; Germany, preparation for war in; Great Britain; Hurricane Fighter; Joint Planning Committee; Royal Air Force; Royal Air Force, Fighter Command; Sea-Lion Operation; Spitfire fighters; 'Their Finest Hour' (Churchill).
Book call no.: 358.40942 S632c
Smith, Peter C. Stuka Squadron: Stukagruppe 77-The Luftwaffe's 'Fire Brigade'. Northamptonshire, England, 1990. 192 p.
Chapter V. Flying Against England, pp 63-76.
Appendix I: The Junkers Ju87 'Stuka': Layout and Equipment, pp 175-176.
Appendix II: Personnel and Equipment of a St.G.77 Staffel, Summer 1942, pp 177-179.
Appendix III: Comparative Ranks and Equivalents of Luftwaffe and RAF Personnel and Units, p 80.
Appendix IV: The Highest Decorated Personnel of St.G.77, pp 181-185.
Appendix V: Organisation and Principal Commanders of Sturzkampfgeschwader 77 (St.G.77), pp 186-187.
Index, pp 188-192.
Book call no.: 940.544943 S656s
Spaight, James Molony. The Battle of Britain, 1940. Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Trenchard. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1941. 231 p.
Index, pp 229-231.
Book call no.: 940.5442 S733b
Spaight, James Molony. The Sky's the Limit: A Study of British Air Power. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. 160 p.
Index, pp 157-160.
Book call no.: 623.740942 S733s
Steinhilper, Ulrich and Osborne, Peter. Spitfire on My Tail-A View from the Other Side. Kent, England, Independent Books, 1989. 331 p.
Chapters 14 through 18 recount the Battle of Britain, pp 270-326.
Book call no.: 940.544943 S8221s
Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of Air Power. New York, William Morrow, 1986. 313 p.
Chapter X. The Battle of Britian, pp 171-182.
Suggestions for Further Reading, pp 291-299.
Index, pp 301-313.
Book call no.: 358.403 S874s
Sydney Camm and the Hurricane: Perspectives on the Master Fighter Designer and His Finest Achievement. Edited by John W. Fozard. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. 258 p.
"In the new arena of air warfare in 1940 Camm's Hurricane eight-gun fighter-agile, fast, stable, rugged, available in just adequate numbers and flown to its forgiving limits by the young pilots in Dowding's Fighter Command-was the dominant factor in one of the decisive battles of all time; a victory which changed history.".
Book call no.: 338.47623746 S982
Taylor, Alan John Percivale. English History, 1914-1945. New York, Oxford University Press, 1965. 708 p.
Chapter XIV. Finest Hour, 1940-1, pp 477-535.
Bibliography, pp 602-639.
The Second World War, pp 635-639.
Index, pp 659-708.
Book call no.: 942.082 T238e
Taylor, John W. R. A History of Aerial Warfare. London, Hamlyn, 1974. 240 p.
See pp 159-177.
Book call no.: 358.409 T245h
Taylor, Telford. The Breaking Wave: The Second World War in the Summer of 1940. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1967. 378 p.
Part II: The Battle of Britain, pp 77-192.
Bibliography: Battle of Britain, pp 358-359.
Book call no.: 940.542 T246b
Townsend, Peter. Duel of Eagles. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1970. 480 p.
Acknowledgments, pp 437-441.
Bibliography, pp 442-447.
Comparative Table of World War II Ranks, pp 448-450.
Luftwaffe Tactical Air Units, pp 451-452.
Index, pp 453-480.
Book call no.: 940.542 T749d
Townsend, Peter. Duel of Eagles. New Edition ed. Novato, CA, Presidio Press, 1991. 455 p.
Acknowledgments, pp xiii-xvii.
Appendix: Diagrams and Essential Features of the Main British and German Aeroplanes Used in the Battle of Britain, 12 pages following p 423.
Index, pp 441-455.
Book call no.: 940.542 T749d 1991
Townsend, Peter. The Odds Against Us: Memoirs of Aerial Combat at Night During the Battle of Britain. New York, William Morrow & Co., 1987. 240 p.
Bibliography, p 229.
Index, pp 231-240.
Book call no.: 940.544941 T751o
U.S. Air Force. Office of Air Force History. Air Warfare and Air Base Defense, 1914-1973, by John F. Kreis. Washington, 1988. 407 p. (Special Studies)
Chapter III. Blitzkrieg and the Battle of Britain.
The Battle of Britain, pp 76-92.
Book call no.: 358.4145 K92a
U.S. Military Academy. Dept of History. The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean. Brigadier General Thomas E. Griess (USA,Ret), Series Editor. Wayne, NJ, Avery Pub. Group, 1989. 429 p. (The West Point Military History Series)
Chapter 3. The Battle of Britain, pp 55-86.
Notes, pp 85-86.
Book call no.: R 940.54 S4451 vol.1
U.S. Military Academy. Dept of Military Art and Engineering. The Campaign in the West, 1940. New York, West Point, 1945. 69 p with 7 maps.
The Battle of Britain (Map 7), pp 61-67.
The Foreword lists the accounts the story of the Battle of Britain is based on.
Book call no.: 940.542 U58cw
Van Ishoven, Armand. The Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. 128 p.
The author adds a new dimension to the story of the Battle of Britain. His close contacts with Luftwaffe veterans result in an unusual collection of eyewitness accounts and numerous rare German photographs. He traces the change in the German attitude from initial confidence through the realization of inevitable defeat.
Book call no.: 940.544943 I79L
Wallace, Graham. R.A.F. Biggin Hill. London, Putnam, 1957. 288 p.
Acknowledgments, p 11.
Book call no.: 358.40942 W189r
The War in the Air: The Royal Air Force in World War II. Edited by Gavin Lyall. New York, William Morrow & Co., 1968. 422 p.
An anthology of writings from and about, the British and Commonwealth Air Forces in the 1939-45 war.
Sources Quoted, pp 413-417.
Index, pp 419-422.
Book call no.: 940.544 L981w
Ward, Arthur. A Nation Alone: The Battle of Britain-1940. London, Osprey Pubs. in Association with the Royal Air Force Museum, 1989. 208 p.
Foreword by Dr Michael Fopp, Director, Royal Air Force Museum, pp 7-8.
Index, p 208.
Book call no.: 940.5421 W256n
Warlimont, Walter. Inside Hitler's Headquarters, 1939-45. Translated from the German by R.H. Barry. Novato, CA, Presidio Press, 1991. 658 p.
First published in Germany under the title 'Im Hauptquartier der Deutschen Wehrmacht, 1939-1945.'
Part III, Section 3. Transition from West to East (Conduct of air and sea warefare against England), pp 107-117.
Appendix D. Sources, pp 575-581.
Notes for Section 3, pp 598-603.
Index, pp 647-658.
Book call no.: 940.5413 W277i 1991
Wheatley, Ronald. Operation Sea Lion: German Plans for the Invasion of England, 1939-1942. London, Oxford University Press, 1958. 201 p.
Chapter III. Events and Decisions in August: i. The Intensified Air Offensive, pp 52-64.
Note on Sources, pp 168-170.
Bibliography, pp 170-174.
Appendices A-E: Operation Instructions and Order of Battle for Sea Lion, pp 175-189.
Index, pp 191-201.
Includes maps.
Book call no.: 940.542 W557o
Willis, John. Churchill's Few: The Battle of Britain Remembered. New York, Paragon House Pubs., 1987. 258 p.
Part One: Before the Battle, pp 19-73.
Part Two: The Battle, pp 77-174.
Part Three: After the Battle, pp 177-247.
Index, pp 253-258.
Book call no.: 940.544941 W734c
Wood, Derek and Dempster, Derek. The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-40. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1961. 536 p.
Bibliography, pp 515-517.
Book call no.: 940.5421 W874n
Wood, Derek and Dempster, Derek. The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britian and the Rise of the Air Power 1930-1940. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. 384 p.
Book call no.: 940.5421 W874n 1990
The World at War, A History Dealing with Every Phase of World War II on Land, at Sea and in the Air Including the Events Which Led Up to the Outbreak of Hostilities. Edited by Geoffrey Dennis. London, Caxton Pub. Co., 1951. 4 vols.
The War in the Air, June to Dec. 1940, Volume II, Chapter 4, pp 166-205.
Index, Volume IV, pp 576-605.
Book call no.: 940.54 D411w
World War II in the Air: Europe. Edited by Major James F. Sunderman, USAF. New York, Franklin Watts, Inc., 1963. 345 p. (The Watts Aerospace Library)
War over Britain, by Ivor Halstead, pp 30-36.
Fighting Talk: Tactics of Aerial Warfare, by Group Capt. J.E. Johnson, RAF, pp 38-47.
Index, pp 338-345.
Book call no.: 940.544 S958w vol.2
Wright, Gordon. The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945. New York, Harper & Row, 1968. 315 p. (The Rise of Modern Europe Series)
Chapter II. (IV), Defeat in the Skies, pp 28-32.
Bibliographical Essay, pp 269-305 (Battle of Britain, pp 275-276).
Index, pp 307-315.
Book call no.: 940.53 W949o
Wright, Robert. The Man Who Won the Battle of Britain (Hugh C.T. Dowding). New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. 291 p.
Foreword by Lord Dowding, pp 11-13.
Index, pp 285-291.
Book call no.: 92 D745w
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