Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

By the summer of 1940, as Britain faced invasion after Dunkirk, Hermann Göring promised Hitler that the Luftwaffe would clear the skies for Operation Sea Lion.

Victoria Taylor blends Luftwaffe air crews' personal letters and diaries with official combat reports and contemporary German newspapers to reveal the military, political, social, and cultural influences shaping the German air force's mindset.

The book humanises the Luftwaffe as a flawed yet formidable opponent, incorporating unique never-before-translated eyewitness accounts from paratroopers, anti-aircraft gunners, and signalmen, while highlighting their ideological motivations under Nazism.