REARMING THE RAF FOR THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Poor Strategy & Miscalculation
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A detailed and highly readable account of how the RAF became obsessed with the bomber in the decades before the Second World War, yet even after six years of continual expansion Bomber Command was unable to mount a credible offensive against Germany in 1940. Adrian Phillips skilfully uses archival sources to show how the clash of personalities inside Whitehall combined with false orthodoxy’s within the Air Ministry to leave Britain with no counter to Hitler’s Luftwaffe – except, almost by accident, the Spitfires and Hurricanes of Fighter Command.
