Last of the Few

The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It

Max Arthur

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English

Virgin
15 June 2011

History; British & Irish history; Second World War; Air forces & warfare

The riveting and moving personal accounts of the RAF pilots who fought and survived the Battle of Britain.

After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt.

For the German army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies - the RAF would have to be broken. So every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled as many as five times a day and civilians watched skies criss-crossed with the contrails from the constant dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britain's very freedom depended on the outcome of that summer's battle.

Britain's air defences were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds 'The Few', as they came to be known, bought Britain's freedom - many with their lives.

These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. We will not see their like again.

By: Max Arthur
Imprint: Virgin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 208g
ISBN: 9780753522295
ISBN 10: 0753522292
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 June 2011
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Max Arthur is the author of best-selling Forgotten Voices of the Great War and Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. Dambusters (also published by Virgin Books) was one of The Times / WH Smith's '50 Paperbacks of the Year' for 2009.

Reviews for Last of the Few: The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It

No one can relive the battle except the men who fought it, and here they are in a tide of telling testimony . . . expertly tracked down and anthologized by our foremost oral historian of war.