
The first comprehensive account of this great commander's public career and uses hundreds of family letters to portray a private life, both joyful and tragic. Tedder was one of the most eminent figures of the Second World War.

Arthur Tedder became one of the most eminent figures of the Second World War: first as head of Anglo-American air forces in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and North Africa; then as Deputy Supreme Commander to General Eisenhower for the Allied campaign that began in Normandy...