Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

图书信息

作者	Len Deighton
出版社	William Collins
ISBN	9780007549504
出版时间	2014-03-27
字数	47.0万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,法律,政治,宗教

读书简介

Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF… Hitler’s top-secret Directive No. 16, July 1940: ‘The English air force must be beaten down to such an extent, that it can no longer muster any power of attack worth mentioning against the German advance.’ ‘Fighter’ is Len Deighton’s thrilling history of the ensuing Battle of Britain – the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe that was fought over the summer of 1940. Ex-RAF pilot Deighton has written a balanced study of strategies and tactics that also expertly recounts the development of the aeroplanes that fought each other in the skies – the Spitfires and Messerschmitts – and of radar. Behind the strategies and tactics, and in the cockpits of the aeroplanes, are the men brought vividly to life by Deighton’s skill as a novelist.

目录

Fighter

The True Story of the Battle of Britain

LEN DEIGHTON

CONTENTS

Cover Designer’s Note

Illustrations

Preface to the 2014 Edition

Introduction

by A. J. P. Taylor

PART ONE

Strategy

Hermann Göring

The Rise of the New German Air Force

The Spanish Civil War

The German Navy

Operation Sea-lion

The Douhet Theories

PART TWO

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander in Chief Fighter Command

Flying Training

Dowding and the 15 May Cabinet Meeting

PART THREE

Weapons: The Metal Monoplane and Radar

Biplanes and Monoplanes

Thrust: The Power Unit

The New Metal Airframes

The Hurricane

The Messerschmitt Bf 109

The Spitfire

Machine Guns and Cannon

Other Comparisons

Messerschmitt and Spitfire – What Were They Like to Fly?

Radar*

The Radar Theories

IFF

The Reporting Network

The Filter Room

Operations Rooms

The Observer Corps

High-Frequency Direction-Finding (HF/DF) – ‘Pip-squeak’/‘Huff-duff’

The System

The Opposing Air Forces

Comparisons – the Machines

Dornier Do 17Z and Dornier Do 215

Heinkel He 111

Junkers Ju 88A

Junkers Ju 87B

Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110

Comparisons – the Men

Comparisons – the Commanders

PART FOUR

Tactics

Phase One: Kanalkampf, the Battles over the Channel

Britain’s Civilian Repair Organisation

Phase Two: Adlerangriff (Eagle Attack)

Phase Three: the Attacks upon 11 Group Airfields, 24 August–6 September

Phase Four: 7 September Onwards, the Daylight Attacks Centre on London

PART FIVE

The Results

The German High Command

The German Predictions

Acknowledgements

(To the First Revised Edition)

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Also By Len Deighton

About the Publisher