The Luftwaffe Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot's Kitbag: Uniforms & Equipment from the Summer of 1940 and the Human Stories Behind Them

"Detail[s] German fighter pilots' flying helmets, oxygen masks, goggles . . . and other ephemera . . . brilliantly done—and completely engrossing."—The Aviation Historian

Reichsmarschall Gring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for his much-vaunted Luftwaffe to conquer the RAF and pave the way for the German invasion of Great Britain. His prediction was to prove disastrously wrong, but for four long months his pilots and aircrew fought for their lives in the skies above th...