The Battle of Britain Five Months That Changed History, May—October 1940 by James Holland (z-lib.org).epub

thank you for all your huge help. I shall never forget that extraordinary
week driving around Germany interviewing Luftwaffe veterans. Thank you
also for all your subsequent help as well. I am also, of course, extremely
grateful to those German veterans who were willing to talk so freely and
openly: Hajo Herrmann, Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Julius Neumann, the late
great General Günther Rall, Johannes Naumann, the late Rudi Miese and
Günther Seeger, and, in Austria, the late Karl Spreitzer. I am also very
grateful to Kurt Dahlmann and Erich Rudorffer.
I owe thanks to a number of people in the various archives in Britain,
Germany and the United States. At the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in
Freiburg, I would particularly like to thank Frau Jena Brabant, but also all
the staff there who helped. I would also like to thank the staff at the
Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, Emmendingen, and at the Bibliothek für
Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart. At the Imperial War Museum in London, I am
particularly grateful to Richard Hughes in the Sound Archive, but also
Roderick Suddaby and his team in the Department of Documents, and to the
staff in the Photographic Archive. My thanks also to the staff at the
National Archives in Kew, London; the archive there has been transformed
in recent years and it is now one of the best equipped and most user-friendly
archives there is. Thanks also to the staff at the Royal Air Force Museum,
St John’s College, Cambridge, the House of Lords and Birmingham
University Archives. In Leeds, I would also like to thank Cathy Pugh and
her fellows at the Second World War Experience Centre. It is a fantastic
resource and Cathy, you are always incredibly generous with your time and
help. Thank you. In America, I must thank Tami Davis Biddle for her help
and advice and at Maxwell, Alabama, Richard Muller. My thanks also to
Stephen Plotkin and Sharon Ann Kelly at the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library in Boston.
I must also thank a number of good friends, who have given
considerable help along the way: Antony Beevor, who encouraged me to
write the book in the first place, and whose advice has been greatly
appreciated. Seb Cox, as the head of the Air Historical Branch, has also
provided incredibly helpful advice, is a font of wisdom and knowledge, and
has patiently put up with too many of my inane questions. I am also
particularly grateful to him for painstakingly reading through and checking
the manuscript. I am very grateful as well to Dr Peter Caddick-Adams, who
was particularly helpful with the western campaign in May–June 1940 and