The man born this week in 1882 arguably is, after Winston Churchill, the reason Great Britain survived World War II, for it was Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding who won the Battle of Britain, and, ...

Korda views his subject from the heights of central command rather than from the cockpit of a Spitfire. His hero, and the focus of this book, is Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding. Stubborn, remote, ...

Sir Hugh Dowding, British Air Chief Marshal, like most visitors emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, was waylaid by reporters as he left the White House. He had spent an important 50 ...

Last December, as London lay almost helpless under Nazi air attacks by night, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh (“Stuffy”) Dowding predicted with mysterious confidence, “Night bombing will be greatly reduced ...