03275cam a2200337 4500 573345823 TxAuBib 20220705120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781415961827 1415961824 b1185ba2-c447-4802-9a95-bb6ccd704586 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 193932 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Korda, Michael. With Wings Like Eagles [Libby]. Books on Tape, 2009. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 269MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 269MB. History. Nonfiction. HTML:Michael Korda’s brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force–often no more than nine hundred on any given day–stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.<br /> <br /> As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Fighter Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible. Dowding persevered–despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting–to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught.<br /> <br /> Korda brings to life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict, from such major historical figures as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Herman Göring (and his disputatious and bitterly feuding generals) to the British and German pilots, the American airmen who joined the RAF just in time for the Battle of Britain, the young airwomen of the RAF, the ground crews who refueled and rearmed the fighters in the middle of heavy German raids, and such heroic figures as Douglas Bader, Josef František, and the Luftwaffe aces Adolf&#160;Galland and his archrival Werner Mölders.<br /> <br /> <br /> <i>From the Compact Disc edition.</i>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:02. Lee, John. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/193932-WithWingsLikeEagles.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/193932-WithWingsLikeEagles.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1185ba2-c447-4802-9a95-bb6ccd704586&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/193932-WithWingsLikeEagles.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/193932-WithWingsLikeEagles.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b1185ba2-c447-4802-9a95-bb6ccd704586&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)