The Battle of Britain Quotes

“It was a key – if not the key – turning point in the war because it meant that instead of the conflict being a European war which one day would escalate into a clash between Germany and Russia, it became a global conflict in which the Third Reich was unlikely to ever realistically emerge victorious. Britain’s defiance did save the world from Nazism.”
― James Holland, The Battle of Britain

“The entire French approach was defensive and negative – and a negative mindset takes hold in many counter-productive ways. The huge cost of the Maginot Line and the appeasement and non-aggression line of the French Government and political left also played an enormous part in formulating policy, but this endemic defensive attitude – this rigidity to the methodical battle plan – had ensured that there could be no French march into Germany when Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, nor again when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Had the French done so on either occasion, the Second World War would almost certainly have never taken place.”
― James Holland, The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940

“one boat.”
― James Holland, The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940

“Without an under-gunner,”
― James Holland, The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940

“16th a day of no action,”
― James Holland, The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940

“nor ground control was something of a step back for them. Furthermore, having reached France,”
― James Holland, The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940