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The few, July-October 1940, Alex Kershaw

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The few, July-October 1940, Alex Kershaw

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesportraitsillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The few

Responsibility statement

Alex Kershaw

Sub title

July-October 1940

Summary

In the early days on World War Two, Britain stood alone against the Third Reich. Its defence lay in the hands of the men of Fighter Command: The Few. In Summer 1940, with the odds against them at their most daunting, a handful of American pilots arrived - in defiance of their own country's strict neutrality laws. Adventurers, farmhands, barnstormers, even an Olympic bobsleogh champion swapped the new world for grassy East Anglian airfields. This is their gripping story

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