James Holland
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The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History, May-October 1940
16 editions
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2010
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The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
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2014
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
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2019
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr
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2012
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Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43
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2003
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Big Week: Smashing the Luftwaffe, February 1944
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The Odin Mission (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #1)
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2008
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Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
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2016
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The War in the West: A New History Volume 2, . the Allies Fight Back 1941-43
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2017
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Darkest Hour (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #2)
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2009
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“Guderian’s troops reaching the Meuse was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, and was due to a masterpiece example of the German Bewegungskrieg.”
― The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
― The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
“Even by May 1944, when Alex would at last begin the great battle for Rome, the Allies had only twenty divisions available in Italy to pit against Kesselring’s twenty-six.”
― Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944--1945
― Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944--1945
“It was perhaps, then, not surprising that it was Colonel Beppo Schmid, not General Martini, who on 16 July submitted to Göring the principal intelligence appreciation of the RAF, which became the basis for the Luftwaffe General Staff’s plans. He underestimated the strength of squadrons, claiming they were eighteen aircraft strong, when in fact they had between twenty-two and twenty-four aircraft. He also stated that only a limited number of airfields could be considered operational with modern maintenance and supply installations, which was nonsense. He badly underestimated current aircraft production figures to the tune of about 50 per cent and claimed there was ‘little strategic flexibility’, when, in fact, Dowding’s air defence system provided exactly the opposite. The Me110, he claimed, was a superior fighter to the Hurricane. Even more glaring were the omissions. The Luftwaffe had no concept of how the air defence system worked, no concept of there being three different commands – Fighter, Coastal and Bomber – and no understanding of how repairs were organized. ‘The Luftwaffe is clearly superior to the RAF,’ he concluded, ‘as regards strength, equipment, training, command and location of bases.’7 He was correct in terms of strength only. The rest of his claims were utter twaddle. On the eve of Adlertag, Schmid further reassured the Luftwaffe General Staff that some 350 British fighters had been destroyed since the beginning of July and that they were already being shot down faster than they could be produced. In fact, up to 12 August, 181 had been destroyed and more than 700 new fighter aircraft built.8 The gulf between fact and fiction was quite startling.”
― The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
― The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
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