A Summer Bright and Terrible
Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar, and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of Britain

Author: David E. Fisher
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005

A must read for anyone who is interested in the Battle of Britain and Lord Dowding, the eccentric man who who stood up against Churchill & led the RAF during its finest hour.

From the dust jacket:
“Lord Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Head of Fighter Command, First Baron of Bentley Priory, lived in the grip of unseen spirits. In thrall of the supernatural, he talked to the ghosts of his dead pilots, proclaimed that Hitler was defeated only by the personal intervention of God, and believed in the existence of faeries. How could it be that such a man should be put in charge of evaluating technical developments for the British air ministry?”
Yet it was he who, fighting the inertia of the bureaucrats who ruled the Air Force, brought the modern multi-gunned Hurricane and Spitfire into existence. And he insisted that his scientists investigate the mysterious invisible rays that would prove to be the salvation of Britain: radar…”

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