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Last of the Few
Max Arthur
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Description for Last of the Few
Paperback. After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt. This is an accounts of the pilots who fought and survived the battle. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ebury Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
210g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753522295
SKU
V9780753522295
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Max Arthur
Max Arthur is the author of best-selling Forgotten Voices of the Great War and Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. Dambusters (also published by Virgin Books) was one of The Times / WH Smith's '50 Paperbacks of the Year' for 2009.
Reviews for Last of the Few
Vastly outnumbered and often less experienced than their opponents, the 2,500 young men of the Royal Air Force who fought in the Battle of Britain would be lauded by Churchill as The Few. The survivors of that campaign are now in their eighties or nineties, their ranks thinning by the year. In his new book, Last of the Few, Max ... Read more