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The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
Da Capo Press
December 2006
On Sale: November 30, 2006
344 pages
ISBN: 0306813033
EAN: 9780306813030
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography | Historical
The never-before-told story of the American pilots--
idealists, adventurers, romantics--who joined the RAF
before America entered the war in order to fight Hitler
and save Britain By the summer of 1940 World War II
had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler was
triumphant and planning an invasion of England. But the
United States was still a neutral country and, as Winston
Churchill later observed, "the British people held the
fort alone." A few Americans, however, did not remain
neutral. They joined Britain's Royal Air Force to fight
Hitler's air aces and help save Britain in its darkest
hour. The Few is the never-before-told
story of these thrill-seeking Americans who defied their
country's neutrality laws to fly side-by-side with
England's finest pilots. They flew the lethal and elegant
Spitfire, and became "knights of the air." With minimal
training and plenty of guts they dueled the skilled
pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe in the blue skies over
England. They shot down several of Germany's fearsome
aces, and were feted as national heroes in Britain. By
October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest
air battle in the history of aviation. At war's end, just
one of the "Few" would be alive. The others died flying,
wearing the RAF's dark blue uniform-each with a shoulder
patch depicting an American eagle. As Winston Churchill
said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much
owed by so many to so few."
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