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Title: Last of the Few
Subtitle: The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It
Author: Max Arthur
Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith, David Shaw-Parker, Sam Kelly, Gareth Armstrong, Patience Tomlinson
Format: Abridged
Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-10-10
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitlers inevitable invasion attempt.
For the German Army to be landed across the Channel, Hitler needed mastery of the skies the RAF would have to be broken so every day, throughout the summer, German bombers pounded the RAF air bases in the southern counties. Greatly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command scrambled as many as five times a day, and civilians watched skies criss-crossed with the contrails from the constant dogfights between Spitfires and Me-109s. Britains very freedom depended on the outcome of that summers battle.
Britains air defences were badly battered and nearly broken, but against all odds, The Few, as they came to be known, bought Britains freedom many with their lives. These are the personal accounts of the pilots who fought and survived that battle. We will not see their like again.
