{"id":1121,"date":"2012-01-09T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2015-05-31T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T20:27:48","slug":"with-wings-like-eagles-a-history-of-the-battle-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"With Wings Like Eagles, A History of the Battle of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Korda, 2009, Harper, New York<\/p>\n<p>This was a pretty interesting book, but only because I didn&#8217;t know much about this campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 Missing was a sense of\u00c2\u00a0the hardships that\u00c2\u00a0the pilots and crew went through as well as the impacts on the ground.\u00c2\u00a0 Korda attempts to give a sense of this but his descriptions seem to fall short.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, the book tends to be repetitive in places.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the book seems to be well researched and factual.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s too bad that\u00c2\u00a0it\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t capture my imagination a bit more. <em><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Korda, 2009, Harper, New York This was a pretty interesting book, but only because I didn&#8217;t know much about this campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 Missing was a sense of\u00c2\u00a0the hardships that\u00c2\u00a0the pilots and crew went through as well as the impacts <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1121\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,21],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}