The Battle of Britain

by Roy Conyers Nesbit

A new paperback edition of the must-have book on the Battle of Britain—an accessible and beautifully illustrated history Roy Conyers Nesbit uses his first-hand experience of flying in World War II to bring history to life, describing how the greatest air battle in history was fought in the skies over southern England between the RAF and the Luftwaffe in the high summer of 1940. Riding high on the success of their Blitzkrieg campaign that had steamrollered France and the Low Countries into defeat, by June 1940 the Nazi forces were poised on the Channel coast ready to invade England. In their way stood the heavily outnumbered squadrons of the RAF which they believed would quickly fall when confronted with the might of Goering’s Luftwaffe. They could not have been more mistaken. In the desperate air battles that followed, played out against the piercing blue skies of one of the hottest British summers on record, the "Few" of the RAF succeeded in defeating a numerically superior Luftwaffe, thereby preventing the invasion of England by German forces. Beautiful, rare images from the author’s collection pay tribute to the men and women of the Battle of Britain.

272 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2000

About the author

Roy has a long-established reputation as a leading aviations historian, who served in the wartime RAF.

Reviews

[Robert Hepple]

First published in 2000, 'The Battle of Britain' is one of many such publications initially published to mark the 60th anniversary of the historic WW2 event. This one relies on a short but informative bit of text describing the events marking each stage of the battle, followed by a selection photographs reproduced to decent size for the most part, with adequate captions which fall short mainly on their descriptions of German aircraft. Many of the pics have appeared before, but with one or two exceptions they are reproduced to their best advantage, and they are very nice pics.

[Kafkasfriend]

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