The Few The American Knights Of The Air Who Risked Everything To Save Britain In The Summer Of 1940 Alex Kershaw by Alex Kershaw 9780306815720, 0306815729 instant download after payment.

This book tells the never-before-told story of the American pilots -- -idealists, adventurers, romantics -- -who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. Eight young Americans joined Britains Royal Air Force, defying their countrys neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with Englands finest pilots in the summer of 1940 -- over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became «knights of the air» and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germanys Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, «Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.» These daring Americans were the few among the «few.»