Fortress England (Secret Squadron, #2) by Robert Jackson


Fortress England (Secret Squadron, #2)
Title : Fortress England (Secret Squadron, #2)
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Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 150
Publication : First published September 1, 1998

For the beleaguered British people, it seems at times that the war will never end. Ken Armstrong and the rest of his special squadron are dedicated to finding ways to reaching that end. The Battle of Britain is over…but the threat of invasion is not. Germany’s planes continue to sneak across to England, dropping bombs on her cities and fleeing again into the night. For Armstrong, new possibilities have emerged, as his special squadron has been greatly expanded with new types of aircraft. Along with these planes come a new cooperate with the Royal Navy in attacking German shipping in the English Channel and North Sea. But ‘Channel Stop’ operations carry extreme risk. The pilots not only must brave storms of German flak in their attacks on enemy ships — they also must contend with the vagaries of mother nature, struggling to fly missions in fog, rain, and snow that make finding the enemy as much down to luck as skill. The Germans are banking on their newest warship, Bismarck, to turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic. This is a terrifying prospect for Great Britain, which already faces dwindling supplies due to the Germans’ destruction of convoy ships bringing in fresh supplies. Everything builds up to a final buoyed by intelligence intercepted by their intelligence officers, England sets out on an assault on German battleships and cruisers that lurk in the French Atlantic ports, just waiting to put to sea and wreak havoc on Britain’s vital maritime convoys… Fortress England is the second book in Robert Jackson’s Secret Squadron series. Robert Jackson was born in the north Yorkshire village of Melsonby in 1941. A former pilot and navigation instructor, he was a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, experience that strongly influenced his writing career. A prolific writer, he has written more than fifty factual works devoted to aviation and military subjects, including Air The RAF in the 1990s, operational histories of a wide range of aircraft, and reference works such as the Guinness Book of Air Warfare. He has also authored more than twenty novels, most of which take place against the backdrop of World War II, and has written popular science features for the Press Association.

Fortress England (Secret Squadron, #2) Reviews

  • Michael Bully

    Slowly got immersed in this novel. I've not researched fighter planes so not qualified to comment on certain aspects of the novel .The title isn't helpful in describing what Britain went through in 1941 . Also at times the author forgets that huge numbers of men from the Empire also served.
    The novel contains whole swathes of history to the point that the plot and characters seem incidental .It's a slow starter.
    But overshadowing all these misgivings is that the novel evokes the period in World War 2 where the Battle of Britain had been won but the risk of Britain being starved out of the war was a possibility. The battle to break the German co-ordination between planes, U boats, and naval ships to menace and to destroy the convoys bringing in food and oil to Britain is depicted so well. Centred round the exploits of British fighter pilots, yet opening out to a broader picture that includes the Royal Navy, the relentless bombing of British cities, the intelligence way, code breaking, a cameo appearance by Rudolf Hess, totally drew me in . Felt the bleakness and the desperate courage of late Winter and Spring 1941 conveyed well, and the build up to the Sinking of the Bismarck was gripping.

  • John Purvis

    “Fortress England” eBppk was published 2016 (originally published on paper in 1998) and was written by Robert Jackson (
    https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/ro...). Mr. Jackson has written over 50 books, both Fiction and Non-Fiction, on World War II, with a focus on aircraft of the era. This is the third novel to feature RAF pilot Ken Armstrong.

    I received a galley of this novel for review through
    https://www.netgalley.com. I categorize this novel as ‘PG’ because it contains scenes of Violence. The setting of this Thriller novel is England during the 1940-41 period of World War II. This novel picks up the story of British RAF officer Ken Armstrong shortly after the second novel of the series “Flames Over France” (
    http://wp.me/p4jzCO-1cK) concludes.

    It contains a lot of history from that period and is another good description of life in England during the war. In this novel Armstrong and his pilots are concerned with German surface raiders attacking convoys coming from North America. I give this novel a 4 out of 5.

    Further book reviews I have written can be accessed at
    https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/blog/.

  • Stephen Stone

    Try as I might, I simply couldn't get into this particular book. I finished it, but it was a chore.