A fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin...

Michael Korda takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and victory. Korda traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. He deftly interweaves the critical strands of...

The story of the aerial combat battle of WWII, in which the Royal Air Force held off the German Luftwaffe.

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This book explores the strategies, technology, and long-term consequences of the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force's air battle against the German Luftwaffe in 1940.

A people's history of the Battle of Britain that challenges the standard mythology.

"The summer of 1940 was supposed to be the beginning of the end of Britain. Europe had fallen to Hitler's storm troops with terrifying speed, and once the Royal Air Force was destroyed, Britain was next. But that was precisely where the Nazis stumbled. For 123 days, while Hermann Goering sent wave after wave of Luftwaffe fighters to rain down fire on Britain, three thousand RAF airmen fought back with a ferocity and agility that stunned the world. Now...

An in-depth retelling of the Battle of Britain, in which the fate of the world lay on the shoulders of the pilots of the Royal Air Force.

A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.