Eagle Days by Victoria Taylor - Battle of Britain thro' German eyes

davidbfpo · May 31, 2025

A review by Dr. Robert Lyman and cited in part:

Admit it: how much do you really know about the Battle of Britain? Most Britons of my age asked this would perhaps be affronted by the question: of course we know about the Battle of Britain! We were brought up on it as Mother’s milk; we’ve watched the film/s, read the book/s; climbed on the aircraft at Duxford and watched them fly. Some of us – a lucky few, no doubt – have even flown in a Battle of Britain Hurricane for 40-minutes over the Oxfordshire countryside (see picture!). But all those memories and experiences are meaningless without what Victoria Taylor has brought us in this excellent book, namely the German view of the battle. It does seem amazing that we need to be reminded that it takes two to tango, and yet the Luftwaffe version – or rather, the experiences of the men who served in the Luftwaffe during the battle – remain very much a closed book for most of us.

It is for this and a host of other reasons that Taylor has done the historiography of the battle an enormous favour. I struggle to recall any other book that so comprehensively deals with the Luftwaffe experience of the battle. But the book is much more than this. Taylor has skilfully demonstrated the deep-set ideological motivation of the Luftwaffe...

(End passage) Thank you Victoria Taylor for grounding this fascinating military history not in the myth of the ‘knights of the sky’ but in the horror of racial hatred and the war that it created, the most devastating our fragile planet has ever experienced. May we forever be protected from its recurrence.
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Publisher's website entry: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/eagle-days-9781804549995/

Google Books has a 51 pg. extract / review: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edit...AJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1876&printsec=frontcover

dp_burke · Jun 3, 2025

She appeared on WW2TV last month:

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