- Published: 2 August 2010
- ISBN: 9780753534625
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Last of the Few
The Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots Who Won It
- Published: 2 August 2010
- ISBN: 9780753534625
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
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 Arthur brings together the voices of the living and the dead to recreate the events of July-October 1940, when vapour trails against a blue sky marked the battle to save civilisation
Daily Telegraph
Entertaining and moving ... This is a brilliant introduction for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the battle. A dramatic tale, well told
The News of the World
No one can relive the battle except the men who fought it, and here they are in a tide of telling testimony...expertly tracked down and anthologised by out foremost oral historian of war, the self0effacing Max Arthur...Read it and remember
The Daily Mail