Defiant: Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain
Autor Robert Verkaiken Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472143549
ISBN-10: 147214354X
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: A mono plate section.
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Robinson
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 147214354X
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: A mono plate section.
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Robinson
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
From the corridors of the Air Ministry to the skies over Dunkirk, Robert Verkaik tells the story of the Battle of Britain's unlikeliest hero with verve and phenomenal grasp of detail. He brings the Defiant fighter back into focus as an important part of the victorious RAF in the hour of its greatest trial.
In Defiant, Robert Verkaik has achieved the impossible - resurrecting the reputation of one of World War Two's worst remembered fighter planes. Unwanted, unloved and rushed into service, the Defiant nevertheless turns out to have achieved far more success in combat than has been previously acknowledged. This is mainly down to the brilliance of the officers who commanded the two operational squadrons and whose record Verkaik rightly praises. This book firmly establishes the aircraft's role in those crucial aerial battles of 1940 and elevates the brave aircrews who fought and died in their forgotten Defiants, to rank alongside their comrades in the better remembered Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Verkaik is an excellent guide, making his case with a restrained passion, taking us through the inter-war rearmament before cataloguing the muddled thinking, the political infighting, the inter-service and personality rivalries. His research was clearly a labour of love, leaving no Whitehall paper or airman's letter unturned in his search for the truth, and he never forgets the human dimension behind the losses.
Defiant is both a stirring testament to the courage of the men who flew them and a welcome new examination of one of the Second World War's most famous conflicts.
Praise for Jihadi John:
An exemplary account . . . The book's most important contribution is to highlight the difficulties faced by the intelligence services . . . a first-class primer on Muslim extremism in Britain.
Praise for Jihadi John:
Verkaik gives a fascinating if frightening picture of the jihadists in our midst.
Praise for Jihadi John:
An outstanding pulling together of the fractured career of one of the most notorious terrorist psychopathic killers of this or any other age. The book is exceptional because its author makes no false claims for what he doesn't know and never confuses explanation with explaining away . . . [an] excellent and thought-provoking book.
Praise for Jihadi John:
A riveting and compelling portrait of Mohammed Emwazi on his journey to the heart of darkness.
Meticulously researched and rich in human and social as well as military interest, Defiant fills a crucial gap in our understanding of that most perilous time.
'Meticulously researched and rich in human and social as well as military interest, Defiant fills a crucial gap in our understanding of that most perilous time'
David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain
Defiant is a startling new narrative of the Battle of Britain, which reveals the surprising truth about the battle's forgotten fighter, the Boulton Paul Defiant.
To date, next to nothing has been written about the third British figher which lined up alongside the much vaunted Spitfire and Hurricane against the all-conquering Luftwaffe in 1940. Yet it is a squadron of Defiants which holds the record for shooting down the most German aircraft in one day.
The families of the Defiant aircrews believed that their brave husbands, brothers and sons had fought and died in vain, but the truth is that their vital contribution to the battle over Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain has been all but erased from the official history. By writing from their unique perspective, Verkaik helps to set the record straight.
'Verkaik is an excellent guide, making his case with a restrained passion, taking us through the inter-war rearmament before cataloguing the muddled thinking, the political infighting, the inter-service and personality rivalries. His research was clearly a labour of love, leaving no Whitehall paper or airman's letter unturned in his search for the truth, and he never forgets the human dimension behind the losses'
Simon Humphreys, Mail on Sunday
'Firmly establishes the aircraft's role in those crucial aerial battles of 1940 and elevates the brave aircrews who fought and died in their forgotten Defiants'
David Fairhead, director of Spitfire
'A revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant . . . the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its crews is overlooked in standard accounts'
The Times
In Defiant, Robert Verkaik has achieved the impossible - resurrecting the reputation of one of World War Two's worst remembered fighter planes. Unwanted, unloved and rushed into service, the Defiant nevertheless turns out to have achieved far more success in combat than has been previously acknowledged. This is mainly down to the brilliance of the officers who commanded the two operational squadrons and whose record Verkaik rightly praises. This book firmly establishes the aircraft's role in those crucial aerial battles of 1940 and elevates the brave aircrews who fought and died in their forgotten Defiants, to rank alongside their comrades in the better remembered Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Verkaik is an excellent guide, making his case with a restrained passion, taking us through the inter-war rearmament before cataloguing the muddled thinking, the political infighting, the inter-service and personality rivalries. His research was clearly a labour of love, leaving no Whitehall paper or airman's letter unturned in his search for the truth, and he never forgets the human dimension behind the losses.
Defiant is both a stirring testament to the courage of the men who flew them and a welcome new examination of one of the Second World War's most famous conflicts.
Praise for Jihadi John:
An exemplary account . . . The book's most important contribution is to highlight the difficulties faced by the intelligence services . . . a first-class primer on Muslim extremism in Britain.
Praise for Jihadi John:
Verkaik gives a fascinating if frightening picture of the jihadists in our midst.
Praise for Jihadi John:
An outstanding pulling together of the fractured career of one of the most notorious terrorist psychopathic killers of this or any other age. The book is exceptional because its author makes no false claims for what he doesn't know and never confuses explanation with explaining away . . . [an] excellent and thought-provoking book.
Praise for Jihadi John:
A riveting and compelling portrait of Mohammed Emwazi on his journey to the heart of darkness.
Meticulously researched and rich in human and social as well as military interest, Defiant fills a crucial gap in our understanding of that most perilous time.
'Meticulously researched and rich in human and social as well as military interest, Defiant fills a crucial gap in our understanding of that most perilous time'
David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain
Defiant is a startling new narrative of the Battle of Britain, which reveals the surprising truth about the battle's forgotten fighter, the Boulton Paul Defiant.
To date, next to nothing has been written about the third British figher which lined up alongside the much vaunted Spitfire and Hurricane against the all-conquering Luftwaffe in 1940. Yet it is a squadron of Defiants which holds the record for shooting down the most German aircraft in one day.
The families of the Defiant aircrews believed that their brave husbands, brothers and sons had fought and died in vain, but the truth is that their vital contribution to the battle over Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain has been all but erased from the official history. By writing from their unique perspective, Verkaik helps to set the record straight.
'Verkaik is an excellent guide, making his case with a restrained passion, taking us through the inter-war rearmament before cataloguing the muddled thinking, the political infighting, the inter-service and personality rivalries. His research was clearly a labour of love, leaving no Whitehall paper or airman's letter unturned in his search for the truth, and he never forgets the human dimension behind the losses'
Simon Humphreys, Mail on Sunday
'Firmly establishes the aircraft's role in those crucial aerial battles of 1940 and elevates the brave aircrews who fought and died in their forgotten Defiants'
David Fairhead, director of Spitfire
'A revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant . . . the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its crews is overlooked in standard accounts'
The Times