Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in Action from the Phoney War through the Battle of Britain

From the author of A Separate Little War, a detailed history of the British World War II aircraft and their brave crew.

In 1940, the defense of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill's "few." Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were other pilots, observers and air gunners—just as courageous—flying the Bristol Blenheim MKIV-F. The future of the country and arguably that of the free world depended also on their...