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Article: Did radar win the Battle of Britain?(Essay)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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IN AUGUST 2006, the reported conclusions of three historians from the Joint Services Staff Command College, Shrivenbam, that the Royal Navy had won the Battle of Britain caused an uproar in the British national media. (1) The sensational headlines seem to have embarrassed the historians into writing a set of three papers for the Royal United Services Institute to modify the extreme assertions of former journalist Brian James in the magazine History Today. (2) The significance of this affair is not whether James misrepresented them but lays in the inability of the British public to tolerate any revisionism relating to the events of 1940--especially anything dimming the ...
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