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Review: Defending Britain’s Skies by Mace and Grehan
Review: Defending Britain’s Skies by Mace and Grehan
http://www.arrse.co.uk/reviews/review-defending-britains-skies-mace-grehan/This is a book containing four of the Official Despatches written by commanders in the Second World War. The first is Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding’s covering the Battle of Britain. The second is General Sir Frederic Pile’s describing his command of home based anti-aircraft guns for the whole of the war. The third of the despatches is that of Marshall of the Royal Air Force Sir Sholto Douglas. It covers the period from when he took over from Dowding – November 1940 to December 1941....