With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain

Michael Korda’s brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force—often no more than nine hundred on any given day—stood between
Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.
Korda recreates the intensity of combat in the “long,
delirious, burning blue” of the sky above southern England and, perhaps...