The definitive short account of history's most famous air battle
Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia's War, The Morbid Age, and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.
As an objective reassessment of this most critical of struggles,
cogently argued and concisely written, The Battle of Britain is
hard to beat
*Sunday Telegraph*
A captivating and readable analysis of the fragile circumstances of
Britain's victory
*Observer*
Succeeds brilliantly ... puts the battle in context, and along the
way a lot of myths bite the dust
*Time*
Brilliant
*The Economist*
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