With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Michael Kor

Description: With Wings Like Eagles by Michael Korda Kordas brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3,000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Bold and refreshing... Korda writes with great elegance and flair." --Wall Street Journal Michael Kordas brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than nine hundred on any given day--stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.Korda recreates the intensity of combat in the "long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England and, perhaps, for the first time, traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions that led inexorably to the worlds first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. Winston Churchill memorable said about the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Here is the story of "the few," and how they prevailed against the odds, deprived Hitler of victory, and saved the world during three epic months in 1940. Back Cover In the summer of 1940, fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp. In this superb history of three epic months that saved the world, Michael Korda brilliantly re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England--while tracing, perhaps for the first time, the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that inexorably led to the worlds first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. With Wings Like Eagles brings to vivid life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict--from Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Hermann G Author Biography Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the Peoples Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York. Review "A wonderful story, splendidly, deftly and originally told." -- Hugh Thomas, author of The Spanish Civil War"A skillful, absorbing, often moving contribution to the popular understanding of one of the few episodes in history to live on untarnished and undiminished in the collective memory and to deserve the description heroic." -- Washington Post Book WorldThe Battle of Britain was one of the great transformative events of modern history, and Michael Kordas stirring account of the campaign is an absolute masterpiece, written with power, intensity and tremendous fidelity to the historical record. It is a tour de force of storytelling and analysis, and a highly pleasurable read, as well, history in the grand style of the masters of the art. -- Donald L. Miller, author of Masters of the Air"An excellent book. The writing is most rewarding, and Kordas natural talent and experience as a storyteller have enabled him to bind all the disparate episodes into a gripping story. A formidable job, beautifully completed." -- Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress FileMilitary historians face tough choices. Do they write about The Big Picture, with presidents and prime ministers making decisions with generals and admirals? Or do they write from the foxhole level, where The Big Picture extends only 300 meters to the front and flanks? . . . In looking back at World War IIs Battle of Britain in With Wings Like Eagles, historian Michael Korda tells the tale from all of the angles cited above. Not only does he make it work, he also keeps it terse. . . . With Wings Like Eagles tells their story superbly. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch"A natural pick for the WWII collection." -- Booklist"Books have been written about the Battle of Britain, but to me none is as interesting and informative as Michael Kordas new With Wings Like Eagles." -- Tampa Tribune"The book soars in those parts in which Korda describes how the British prepared for the war in the skies, or how the Germans failed time and again to deliver a knockout blow". -- New York Times Book Review"A worthy addition to the mounds of material on the battle that saved Britain and possibly much of the world." -- San Antonio Express-News"Regardless of whether you are one of the lucky few ever to have flown a Spitfire, or your parents not yet born in 1940, Michael Kordas reliving of all the exhilaration, heroism, fear, and epochal significance of the Battle of Britain will enthrall you. He restores the name of its principal architect, Stuffy Dowding, to its proper pinnacle, and even has unexpected, but just, praise for Neville Chamberlain. His mastery of aero-technics is phenomenal, and no one can make an exciting, and complex, tale more understandable; quite simply the best book I have read this year." -- Sir Alistair Horne, C.B.E. Review Quote Michael Kordas Ike is a clear-eyed, grand-scale biography that does much more than tell the remarkable life-story of Dwight D. Eisenhower.Written with great vitality and a broad understanding of both military history and human nature, it is a powerful reminder of the almost unimaginable magnitude of World War II and that Eisenhower, in his crucial role in the struggle, proved, exactly when needed, to be one of the most important, genuinely laudable Americans ever.Kordas deft portrayals of Churchill, Roosevelt, George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur are superb.There are illuminating details and anecdotes aplenty.But it is Eisenhower as Supreme Commander and later as president, who provides a vivid lesson in leadership at just the moment when leadership is of such paramount importance to the nation and the world. (David McCullough) Details ISBN0061125369 Author Michael Korda Short Title WITH WINGS LIKE EAGLES Language English ISBN-10 0061125369 ISBN-13 9780061125362 Media Book Format Paperback Residence New York City, NY, US Birth 1933 Subtitle The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-01-19 UK Release Date 2010-01-19 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-01-19 NZ Release Date 2010-01-19 US Release Date 2010-01-19 Pages 384 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint HarperCollins Publishers DEWEY 940.54211 Illustrations Illustrations, color; Illustrations, black and white Audience General Imprint US Harper Perennial Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127205646;

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