Battle for the Channel: The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July-10 August 1940

Author(s): Brian Cull 

ISBN: 9781781556252
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With the 76th anniversary of the Battle of Britain upon us, Battle for the Channel details how close the country came to a Nazi invasion.
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  • A gripping account of the Battle of Britain as it was viewed in 1940 by the aircrews of both sides, the press – often for propaganda purposes – and the public

  • Many personal accounts and memories of the battle

  • With tabulations of aircrew and aircraft lost by the RAF and Luftwaffe, and with known combat claims made by both sides in this titanic struggle that changed the course of history

  • Illustrated with new and rarely seen photographs


10 July, the official first day of the Battle of Britain, witnessed increased aerial activity over the English Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British coastline. The main assaults by ever-increasing formations of Luftwaffe bombers, escorted by Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters, were initially aimed at British merchant shipping convoys plying their trade of coal and other materials from the north of England to the southern ports.

These attacks often met with increasing success although RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes endeavoured to repel the Heinkel He 111s, Dornier Do 17s and Junkers Ju 88s, frequently with ill-afforded loss in pilots and aircraft. Within a month, the English Channel was effectively closed to British shipping.

Only a change in the Luftwaffe’s tactics in mid-August, when the main attack changed to the attempted destruction of the RAF’s southern airfields, allowed convoys to resume sneaking through without too greater hindrance.

 

BOOK ISBN 9781781556252
FORMAT 234 x 156 mm
BINDING hardback
PAGES 352 pages
PUBLICATION DATE 15 July 2017
TERRITORY World
ILLUSTRATIONS 32 black-and-white photographs









Brian Cull has been writing Second World War aviation history for the past twenty-five years and has more than twenty-five titles to his credit, many of which have been highly acclaimed. For Fonthill Media, he is the author of First of the Few: 5 June-9 July 1940, The Diary of Sonny Ormrod DFC: Malta Fighter Ace (with Frederick Galea), 249 at Malta: RAF’s Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron (with Frederick Galea), Fighters Over the Aegean: Hurricanes Over Crete, Spitfires Over Kos, Beaufighters Over the Aegean, 1943-44 and Battle for the Channel: The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July-10 August 1940.


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