The Battle Of Britain: The Fight for Survival in 1940

Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft...petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers...streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on the wireless...radar screens picking up German fighters and bombers approaching the English coast...

In 1940 the fate of the civilised world hung on the outcome of the Battle of Britain. It seems another world-and indeed it was. Still at school at the time, Michael Bowyer applies his unrivalled skill to rec...