Buy this book on-line ARTHUR**, MAX: : LAST OF THE FEW: The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won ItLONDON.VIRGIN BOOKS/EBURY PUBLISHING,2010. ISBN 9780753522271.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w contemporary wartime photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing minimally affecting both the dw/dj and boards.Top edge of upper bd has a tiny,centrally placed dent.Top edge imperceptibly toned,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy?
Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate b/w contemporary wartime photographic illustrated eps.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xipp+1-290pp [paginated] includes list of abbreviations,an introduction,6 chapters, profuse,subject-related contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,author's note,contents list/table,b/w Air Administration map (showing the air defences of South East England and the Midlands).
After the fall of France in May 1940, Hitler set his sights on the invasion of Britain.Within weeks he had a vast fleet ranged along the French coast.But his biggest obstacle was the small and under-resourced Royal Air Force - Hitler knew he must gain control of the skies if his invasion fleet was to stand a chance of crossing successfully.
And so began the Battle of Britain: thirteen terrifying weeks which saw 2,500 young RAF pilots pitted against the larger and more experienced German forces of the Luftwaffe,high above the English Channel.
Despite being vastly outnumbered,by October the multiple daily sorties and dogfights were over.'The Few' had succeeded and though the Luftwaffe continued to attack it was never again in such vast numbers.
Hitler's invasion would not now take place.This was his first major defeat.
More than a fifth of the British and Allied pilots died during the Battle of Britain.Today (then 2010) the remaining veterans are all in their late eighties and nineties.
Acclaimed oral historian Max Arthur has interviewed many veterans and drawn on sound archives and written testimonies of that short but hugely significant battle. In their own words,their memories undimmed by the passage of time,they tell of their experiences.
Their stories are as riveting,as vivid and as poignant as they were seventy years ago.
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