Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

by Len Deighton Narrated by John Sackville

Overview

"The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was" -Andrew Wilson, Observer



History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective, and even more inspiring, truth.



"Revolutionised thinking about the Battle of Britain in a way that has not been seriously challenged since" -The Times

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

‘Compelling reading … a praiseworthy attempt to compress into one short volume one of the most vital albeit brief periods of European history’ Financial Times

‘[Fighter] must surely rank as the most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was’ Observer

‘The best, most dispassionate story of the battle that I have read, and I say that even though the book destroyed many of my illusions’ New York Times

Product Details

BN ID:	2940194462223
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	06/16/2026
Edition description:	Unabridged