The Royal Air Force: The First One Hundred Years

by John Buckley, Paul Beaver, John Buckley

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world. Formed to serve a strategic need in the most intensive war that Britain had then fought, the RAF continued in the inter-war era to play a key role in the political and diplomatic world, and in defending the Empire.

During the Second World War, the RAF was pivotal in defending Britain from invasion in the Battle of Britain, and then in leading the assault...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798032
• ISBN13: 9780198798033
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"