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Fighter
First published 1977
Deighton reconstructs the Battle of Britain through the aircraft, radar systems, command structures and people who fought it. He compares the RAF and Luftwaffe as organisations, explaining how fighter control, production, pilot training and tactical doctrine affected the campaign as much as individual combat in the air.
The familiar national story is tested against operational detail. Decisions by commanders, the limits of machines and misunderstandings on both sides are placed back into the uncertain summer and autumn of 1940, showing why the outcome depended on systems of detection and control as well as on the courage of fighter pilots.
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