Open AccessROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945
Author(s) -
Richard Cornwell
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/7-1-833
Subject(s) - offensive , majesty , interim , event (particle physics) , first world war , history , work (physics) , world war ii , classics , political science , operations research , law , ancient history , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
This three volume official history of the Royal Air Force in World War II was first published in 1953 to satisfy the need for a brief, interim history until such time as a fuller, more analytical treatment could be attempted. In the event the Royal Air Force was not dealt with as a separate entity in the massive official History of the Second World War edited by J. R. M. Butler, except for the four volumes published on the strategic air offensive. In view of this Her Majesty's Stationery Office has taken the welcome decision to re-issue this work by Richards and Saunders, with some minor textual emendations