Last of the Few

18 Battle of Britain Fighter Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories

Dilip Sarkar

5 x 8, 224 pages, 58 b/w illustrations, 9781445602820, $19.95, paperback, Amberley
July 12, 2011

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2,927 aircrew of RAF Fighter Command fought and won the Battle of Britain in 1940, 544 lost their lives in action. They flew to battle in Spitfires and Hurricanes, Defiants and Blenheims, although it is the two former fighter types � single-seaters both � that still inspire and capture our imagination.

Dilip Sarkar relates the stories of 18 pilots, researched through personal interviews, correspondence and contemporary archive material. Many of the pilots featured became �aces� in the Battle of Britain, others achieved such status afterwards whilst others went into action only to be instantly blasted out of the sky without even having seen the enemy. Their collective experience, however, is typical of those who flew Spitfires and Hurricanes in 1940.

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