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When the last men were being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, the world recognised that a miraculous event had occurred. Over 388,000 allied troops had been rescued from the shores of mainland Europe against overwhelming odds. The miracle to follow was just as amazing. Despite having both inferior numbers of and models of aircraft, the Royal Air Force’s young and mostly inexperienced pilots stopped not just the Luftwaffe’s attempts to dominate the skies, but the one opportunity Adolf Hitler ever had to launch a sea-born invasion of Great Britain. While bringing a daily account of the ensuing Battle of Britain, this book puts the events of that summer into perspective by considering the aircraft, the men and the leadership of both nations as an epic struggle for the preservation of freedom for the western world took place in the skies over southern England.

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