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The Few: Summer 1940, The Battle of Britain Paperback – June 30, 2001

by Philip Kaplan (Author), Richard Collier (Author)
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"The best sort of popular military history"--Times Literary Supplement. Sixty years ago, in England's summer skies, history's greatest air battle raged. In a decisive moment, those whom Churchill so famously addressed as "the few" thwarted Hitler's planned invasion. Over 160 graphic images and riveting testimony by Allied and Luftwaffe pilots, ground crew, and civilians paint a panoramic portrait of this confrontation. Pictures of wartime locations as they were then and are now, plus vintage photos from scrapbooks and diary excerpts, provide a uniquely personal perspective.
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  1. Print length
    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Seven Dials
  4. Publication date
    June 30, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    10 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1841880620
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1841880624
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Dials; Paperback ed edition (June 30, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1841880620
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1841880624
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.11 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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3.0 out of 5 stars Workmanlike Survey of Battle
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014
From lineups of Fighter Command airplanes, to Luftwaffe pilots in their planes, this takes us back to historic days. Although the battleground was centered over southern England, (the country being too large for Me 109s to reach) that worked to advantage of 11 Group and its' squadrons. Radar was their great advantage, followed by pilots fighting over their own country.
We see the antique telephones, the bunkers, crumbling airfield facilities and think "how quaint", but for them, it was their Internet, Cheyenne Mountain, and space station. The stress on combatants was worse in some ways, because the waiting, the sirens used to warn of approaching raids, and those who were assigned to obsolete airplanes. The Defiants or Ju 87s were easily shot down by nimble fighters, and their slaughter indicated how slowly commanders came to realize their inadequacy.
Count on this volume to serve up snippets of verse, quotes, maps and posters of the time. The groupings of restored planes, or line drawings are riveting.
Appendices contain images of medals, lengthy bibliography, summaries of airplane stats, German and British aircraft losses, production, units involved, British targets attacked, civilian and military casualties.
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