Alexandria author Brooke C. Stoddard will discuss
and sign copies of his new book World in the Balance: The Perilous Months of June-October 1940 at The Hangar: Aviation Specialties, 1325 King Street, Alexandria, Va., on Saturday, December 17 from 2:00PM to 4:00PM.
Owing to the aviation aspects of the Battle of Britain, Stoddard and The Hangar: Aviation Specialties are
teaming up -- The Hangar specializes in aviation memorabilia, clothing, and aircraft models, especially as they relate to World War II.
Stoddard is a former editor of Military Heritage
Magazine as well as a former writer and editor at Time-Life Books and National Geographic. “I wrote this book about the Battle of Britain for Americans,” he says, “because there are stories about the struggle Americans often overlook. One is the attack of the British navy on the French fleet days after France’s armistice with Germany
so that French battleships would not fall to the Nazis. More than a thousand French sailors were killed.”
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The book also presents plenty of aviation-related material, including comparisons of British and German aircraft, the story of Hugh Dowding who masterminded Royal Air Force
Fighter Command, and the development of radar just in time for the Nazi air invasion.
Stoddard has lived in Alexandria since 1979 and the Washington, D. C., area since 1973.
