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A 3 page look at A Summer Bright and Terrible by David Fisher. No additional sources cited.
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the Battle of Britain. It is a book that also does something different in that it talks, not so much of Winston Churchill, as most books do, but of a
man called Dowding, a man often overlooked in history but crucial to the success of this particular battle in history. The following paper examines this work. A Summer
Bright and Terrible In this particular work one understands that the title refers to what appears to be a summer that was incredibly hot and yet incredibly terrible: "In England
the summer of 1940 was the sunniest, driest, most glorious summer in living memory. In that bright and terrible summer Hitlers Germany lay spread like a galloping cancer across Europe,
Austria, and Czechoslovakia had been swallowed, Poland destroyed, Belgium, Holland, and France enveloped and subjugated in a new form of warfare, the Blitzkrieg" (Fisher, ; xiii). Clearly this title suggests,
and then later illustrates and illuminates, how it was a wonderfully bright summer for England, but also the most terrible in light of Hitler and the war. It is
also a book that speaks of warfare on many levels, and in relationship to various progressions in the history of warfare, beginning in the latter part of the 19th century.
It tells, in introducing the notion of experimentation and radar which will be a very important part of the book, of how many dangerous experiments took place prior to the
Second World War. In offering up such information it is also speaking of the primitive nature of air warfare at the time, and this further sets the stage for the
arrival of Dowding and his visions and success, as well as eccentricity. In Fishers work the reader is made very aware of the tentative position of England, and how
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