| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2008009293 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0061125350 (hbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780061125355 (hbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0060756659 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780060756659 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)212893654 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
940.54211 Kor |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
940.54211 Kor |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Korda, Michael |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
With wings like eagles : |
| Remainder of title |
a history of the Battle of Britain / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Michael Korda. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harper, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
322 p., [24] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
"The bomber will always get through" -- "To England, all eyes were turned. All that has gone now. Nothing has been done in 'the years that the locust hath eaten.'" -- "I can't understand why Chicago gangsters can have bulletproof glass in their cars, and I can't get it in my Spitfires!" -- "The other side of the hill" -- The first act: Dunkirk and the Dowding letter -- Round 1: "Der Kanalkampf" -- Round 2: Sparring -- Adlerangriff, August 1940 -- The hardest days: Aug 16 thru Sep 15 -- The turning point. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Michael Korda takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and victory. Korda traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. He deftly interweaves the critical strands of the story--the invention of radar; the developments by visionary aircraft designers; and the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare. As Nazi Germany rearmed after 1933, one eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, persevered--despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting--to perfect the British RAF fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
92989 |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Great Britain. |
| Subordinate unit |
Royal Air Force |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
World War, 1939-1945. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Britain, Battle of, Great Britain |
| Chronological subdivision |
1940 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
World War |
| General subdivision |
Aerial operations |
| Chronological subdivision |
1939-1945 |
| Geographic subdivision |
British |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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