| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes) |
| Summary |
A social history documentary series featuring stories of human interest from 1940, exploring the courage and resilience of the human spirit during the Battle for Britain. People from all over the globe who joined the Royal Air Force explain what it was like to live through this fundamental conflict. We look at the saviour of the Battle of Britain, Hugh Dowding, who was instrumental in structuring an entire air defence force that could take on the massive aerial might of the Luftwaffe. We argue that it was primarily Dowding who saved Britain from defeat against Hitler in 1940, only to be ignominiously humiliated at the end of the conflict |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed October 9, 2015) |
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In English |
| Subject |
Dowding, Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Baron, 1882-1970
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
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Fighter pilots
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Fighter plane combat
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Sachs, Andrew, narrator
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Saunders, Stephen, producer, director
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