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Churchill's Few: The Battle of Britain

Churchill's Few: The Battle of Britain

Willis, John

Hardcover

Military BiographiesAir CombatWorld War II

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ISBN10: 1912914050
ISBN13: 9781912914050
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: Jun 16 2020
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The most famous turning point of World War II.

Eighty years after the Battle of Britain this vivid and dramatic book tells the story, in their own words, of six brave young men who fought courageously in the skies above England to prevent Hitler's invasion of Britain.

This thin blue line in their Hurricanes and Spitfires were the few to whom Churchill said the nation owed so much. It was, as one pilot's wife put it a queer, golden time, when men in their teens and twenties fought each other in a brutal but still gentlemanly conflict. At stake was the very future of Britain.

The six men in this sympathetic but honest portrayal were from vastly contrasting backgrounds. Geoffrey Page, shot down in his Hurricane and the victim of horrendous burns, was a founder member of the legendary Guinea Pig Club. Bob Doe, also badly injured, was one of the most successful fighter aces but remained unheralded and out of the public eye. Cyril Bamberger rose from humble origins as a Sergeant Pilot to win a DFC and bar. Joseph Slagowski was one of the small band of heroic Polish pilots whose contribution to the Battle, as this book shows, remains scandalously undervalued.

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