| Bader - The Man and his Men by Michael G. Burns.
Bader is not one of my heroes, in fact I disliked his style of leadership. However this book covers the events and the men of his Bader wing.
A couple of surprising things, the wing was only in combat for a fortnight during the BofB, the impression given in other places was that it was in combat all during the battle.
The other thing was that during the period where figher command launched attacks on France, the Luftwaffe lost 124 aircraft, whereas, the RAF lost 198 during the same period.
But the book is also useful as it goes in to in great detail the postings in and out of the various squadrons and of the various combats fought by the wing.
It also goes into the same detail with the wing after the loss of Bader.
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HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax 
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