The Battle of Britain

A lavishly illustrated and highly designed history of one of the defining moments of both British history and World War II.

In 1940 Britain was an island under siege. The march of the Nazi war machine had been unrelenting: France and Belgium had quickly fallen and now the British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone to counter the grave threat.

However, their fate would not be decided by armies of millions but by a small band of fighter pilots. It was on their shoulders that Britain's best...