Richard Overy: The Birth of the RAF
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English - May 10, 2018 15:23 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsBooks Arts politics culture news comedy health entrepreneur business entrepreneurship leadership interview Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sam Leith talks to historian Richard Overy about his new book The Birth of the RAF, 1918.
100 years ago this spring, the Royal Air Force took to the skies for the first time. Yet it was far from inevitable that it would come into being, that having done so it would continue to exist beyond the end of the First World War, or even that the Royal Air Force would be Royal. He disentangles a forgotten history of political and public-relations manoeuvring and inter-service rivalry, before looking at the present and future of those who have inherited the mantle of The Few…