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Terror from the Sky: The Doodlebug War Kindle Edition

by Graham A. Thomas (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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The story of Britain’s desperate defensive operations against the Nazis’ V1 flying bombs in 1944.
 
In the summer of 1944, the Germans launched more than 10,000 flying bombs at Britain, most of them toward London—which had already endured the Blitz in the earlier phase of the war. Thousands of people were killed, and many more injured. RAF fighter pilots flew round the clock patrols, desperately trying to shoot the robot rockets known as V1s down and stop them from reaching their targets.
 
This history recounts the horrors of these raids and the defenses Britain used against them, both on the ground and in the air—as a weary but determined nation once again battled Nazi terror from above.
 
Includes photographs
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    Pen & Sword Aviation
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    July 15, 2008
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Graham A Thomas is an author and a historian.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BCOW2A4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Aviation (July 15, 2008)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2085 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 323 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020
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Very informative a lot of research gone into this book
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2.0 out of 5 stars Gave up after first half
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2020
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I'm a big reader of military history but I only made it through just under half of this book. Of what I did read, it was mostly page after page of one or two paragraph summaries of contact reports. Pilot alerted, responded, found diver, attacked, observed diver explode or crash. Got very monotonous very quickly. Returned for refund.
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Development and deployment plus the unit that operated this weapon is covered. The British air Force units that went and fought these weapons is described in chapter to chapter.
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ccoffey
3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but lacking...
Reviewed in Canada on January 18, 2017
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I have to say I was disappointed with this book. Seemingly endless pages of fighter pilot combat report after combat report with little background. Almost nothing about the development of the V1, or any insight from the German side regarding strategy etc. Too much detail from the fighter pilot's point of view, too little of the big picture.Little info from the perspective of the AA crews or fire and rescue workers on the ground. Also missing was anything about the contribution of the Bomber Command, which pounded the V1 launch and storage sites daily. The picture section was disappointing as well. It was interesting in places, and fairly well written, but in the end I couldn't recommend it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Australia on June 4, 2016
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Reminded me of my childhood
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M. Koolhaas
3.0 out of 5 stars it's okay
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2014
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Even though i appreciate the research that is needed to write a book like this, I do think the writer missed a few opportunities. Describing the most succesfull tempest sqaudrons but not the most succesfull spitfire sqaudrons. Some small inaccuracies also occur in the book in the discriptions of spitfires. This empasizes the difference in level of research done on the tempest squadrons as apossed to the spitfire sqaudrons. However the book gives a very precise, day by day account, of the efforts to defend britain against the V-1 flying bombs.
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Ian Goodchild
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2016
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A Good readable book
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