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

‘Atmosphere cheerful…’ Cockett, Love and War in London, 17/8/1940
‘People here, the ordinary…’ Daily Express, 14/8/1940
‘twenty little silver fish…’ Nicolson, HND, 18/8/1940
‘There they are!’ Colville, The Fringes of Power, 18/8/1940
‘Our casualties were…’ TNA AIR 27/300
‘Christ, this is the end…smoke and flame’ Hugh Dundas, Flying Start, p.
50, and Evening Standard, 6/1/1960
‘Very sorry indeed to hear…’ Hugh Dundas papers, letter, 25/8/1940
40. Bombs on Berlin
‘We pilots…the struggle’ Galland, The First and the Last, p. 39
‘We have reached…’ AHB, Translation No. VII/39
‘One eye – one beam!’ Jones, Most Secret War, p. 120
‘For the first time…’ Shirer, Berlin Diary, 29/8/1940
41. Tactics and Technicalities
‘It sounds all right in theory…’ Hughes, diary, 11/8/1940
‘Night ops in good weather…’ Ibid., 12/8/1940
‘All of the pilots…battle of attrition’ Steinhilper and Osborne, Spitfire on
My Tail, p. 283
‘Never attempt a “tail-chase”…’ Air Ministry, Pilot’s Notes
‘In a surprisingly large…’ TNA AVIA 6/2394
‘Landed with undercarriage…’ AHB, Hurricane Accident Report Cards
10 July–31 October 1940
‘When it hit…’ The Few (2000), ACO/Film/CO Film Channel 5
‘The cockpit blew up…’ Ibid.
42. Breaking Point
‘On no part of the Royal Air Force…’ WS, 20/8/1940
‘The results we could…’ Dönitz [Dönitz], Memoirs, p. 112
‘Losses have been very heavy’ TNA CAB 66/11
‘startling shipping losses…’ Colville, The Fringes of Power, 30/8/1940
‘We cannot afford…’ No. 11 Group Instructions to Controllers, No. 4,
private collection
‘I shall never forget…’ Crook, Spitfire Pilot, p. 60
‘I learnt not to be over-enthusiastic…’ TNA AIR 4/21
‘We were heroes…’ The Few (2000), ACO/Film/CO Film Channel 5