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Luftwaffe over Scotland by Les Taylor PDF

By Les Taylor

Luftwaffe over Scotland is the 1st entire heritage of the air assaults fixed opposed to Scotland via Nazi Germany in the course of global conflict and undertakes an in depth exam of the method, strategies and politics concerned on each side, including a technical critique of the weaponry hired by means of either attackers and defenders. vast figures on Scottish civilian casualties were integrated, including an entire record of all Scottish destinations that have been bombed and information of German airplane losses. From the relentless hit-and-run assaults up the east coast of Scotland to the calamities of Clydebank and Greenock, Luftwaffe over Scotland not just deals an in depth research of precisely what occurred, but in addition offers clean new proof and claims concerning many features of the struggle in Scotland - a few of them particularly at odds with the extra conventional British portrayals of worldwide conflict . Luftwaffe over Scotland attracts on a wide selection of resources, akin to reliable information, articles, letters and private tales, together with information regarding German Luftwaffe operations, to color the 1st complete and actual photo of the dramatic and sometimes brutal air assaults that happened in nearly each village, city and town in Scotland in the course of global conflict . From a close research of the attacking German forces, to a proof of the strengths and weaknesses of the air defences round Scotland, this can be a massive and long-overdue contribution to the whole figuring out of this dramatic interval within the background of the fashionable Scottish nation.

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