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    Overarching view of the air war

    Oct 28, 2021 5 minutes
    Richard Overy

    Through Adversity: Britain and the Commonwealth’s War in the Air: Volume 1

    Undaunted: Britain and the Commonwealth’s War in the Air: Volume 2 both Ben Kite Helion, £29.95 each

    THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF BOOKSon the Royal Air Force and its Commonwealth sister air forces in the Second World War, in all the wartime theatres, and in a variety of strategic roles. Ben Kite, an army officer specialising in intelligence assessment, and a recent addition to the stable of historians writing on the war, sets out in these two large volumes to bring together the many separate histories on the RAF and Commonwealth wartime experience.

    Rather than a continuous narrative, which is by now well-known, he has chosen to approach the subject by theme. The result is a very readable and wide-ranging history that pays tribute to

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