Parry, Simon W. Battle of Britain Combat Archive. Volume 20: 22 October - 31 October 1940

Part 20 of a detailed chronology of the Battle of Britain in the summer and autumn of 1940. Day by dayand practically hour by hourthis volume chronicles the individual offensive and defensive operations conducted by the German Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force during the period from October 22 to October 31, 1940. For every sortie, the book provides combat reports from participating pilots, precise tallies of aircraft losses on both sides, and official accounts detailing the course of each specific mission. By October, it had become clear that the "classic" phase of the Battle of Britain was over. Most authors who address the Battle of Britain pay scant attention to October 1940; indeed, there is a recently published 96-page book that devotes a mere single paragraph to the entire month! Consequently, these final weeks of the Battle of Britain remain largely unknown, and the engagements fought during this period have gone, for the most part, undocumented. This book now sets the historical record straight, offering a complete and comprehensive account of every single engagement that took place during the final nine days of the battle. This coverage is so extensive, in fact, that the creators were compelled to expand the scope of this concluding volume to 160 pages. Drawing on their signature blend of eyewitness accounts and entirely new researchsubstantiated by contemporary documents from both warring partiesauthor Simon Parry and his team of experts have picked up precisely where most other books on the Battle of Britain leave off. This serves as a worthy concluding volume to this book series.