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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Code-Names Used in Text
Preface
Carnage at Noon
Part One: Before the Battle
1 No Longer an Island
2 Groundwork
3 The Bomber Won’t Always Get Through
4 Late Spurt
5 Bonus of Time
6 Surviving the Storm
7 Battle Order
Part Two: The Battle
8 British Day One: 10 July 1940
9 Channel Fight: 11 July–11 August
10 Clearing the Way: 12 August
11 Eagle Day – and After: 13–14 August
12 Enter – and Exit – Luftflotte 5: 15 August
13 The Assault Continues: 16 August
14 Respite and Re-engagement: 17–18 August
15 Desperate Days: 19 August–6 September
16 Strategic Turning-Point
17 The New Target: 7 September
18 ‘Ominous Quiet!’: 8–14 September
19 ‘The odds were great; our margins small; the stakes infinite’: 15 September
20 The Scent of Victory: 16–30 September
21 The Battle Fades: October
Part Three: After the Battle
22 Retrospect
23 Scrambles
Appendices
I: Chronology of the Battle
II: Basic Statistics of Fighter Command and Luftwaffe Aircraft Engaged in the Battle of Britain
III: Higher Command, Summer 1940
IV: Air Defence Higher Formations, July–September 1940
V: Operational Chain of Command in the Luftwaffe
VI: Equivalent Commissioned Ranks: RAF and Luftwaffe
VII: Fighter Command Order of Battle, 8 August 1940
VIII: Luftwaffe Order of Battle against Britain, 13 August 1940
IX: Anti-Aircraft Defences: Number and Location of Heavy Guns, 21 August 1940
X: The Balloon Defences, 31 August 1940
XI: Fighter Command Order of Battle, 7 September 1940
XII: 100 Octane Fuel
Source References
Acknowledgments
Index
Photo Section
Copyright Page
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