The Few: Summer 1940, the Battle of Britain

by Philip Kaplan, Richard Collier, Peter Townsend (Introduction)

"The best sort of popular military history"--Times Literary Supplement. Sixty years ago, in England's summer skies, history's greatest air battle raged. In a decisive moment, those whom Churchill so famously addressed as "the few" thwarted Hitler's planned invasion. Over 160 graphic images and riveting testimony by Allied and Luftwaffe pilots, ground crew, and civilians paint a panoramic portrait of this confrontation. Pictures of wartime locations as they were then and are now, plus vintage photos from scrapbooks and diary excerpts, provide a uniquely personal perspective.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, World War II

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is basically a coffee table style book so the pool of information is broad but shallow. This is made up for by all the wonderful photographs.

[Jefferson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great companion to Fighters of WW II - from british perspective.

[Linda Chrisman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent!