"Bold and refreshing... Korda writes with great elegance and flair."
--Wall Street Journal
Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the
summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of
the Royal Air Force--often no more than nine hundred on any given
day--stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his
grasp.
Korda recreates the intensity of combat in the "long, delirious, burning
blue" of the sky above southern England and, perhaps, for the first
time, traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic,
scientific, industrial, and human decisions that led inexorably to the
world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle.
Winston Churchill memorable said about the Battle of Britain, "Never in
the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Here
is the story of "the few," and how they prevailed against the odds,
deprived Hitler of victory, and saved the world during three epic months
in 1940.