This fantastic book, which contains some photographs, will plunge you into the memoirs of aerial combat at night during the Battle of Britain. Characteristics Book cover finish Headband, Hardcover ( square back binding ) Special features First edition, Dedicated copy, Slightly damaged dust jacket, Handwritten notes Conditions Good Number of pages 240 Published date 1987 Language English Size 17 x 25 x 3 cm Author Peter Townsend Editor WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC. Description ( … ) The Odds Against Us is more than just a book about aerial combat. The author tracked down residents of London who survived the German raids to tell their incredible true stories of endurance and bravery. He has also located the German fliers with whom he dueled miles above the spires of Parliament to get their own personal accounts. ( ... ) The author's felicitous writing drives home again and again the truth of just how much better the Germans were prepared for war than the British. His casual attitude understates - yet highlights - the desperation with which the R.A.F. met the German attackers. ( ... ) Their sleek Hawker Hurricane fighters that sped through the daytime skies with incredible grace proved to be unfit for nighttime combat. They had no radar ; radio control from the ground was skimpy. They had to take off and land on unlit grass runways. The cockpits were unheated ; throttle controls and gun mechanisms froze solid. ( ... ) The hazards of night flying all too frequently proved more deadly for the R.A.F. than did actual combat. ( ... ) An entertaining, exciting autobiographical epic.
