BOOK THEIR FINEST HOUR: BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940 (BOX49)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 THEIR FINEST HOUR: THE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: 1940                              BALLANTINE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE VIOLENT CENTURY: BATTLE BOOK, NO. 2

AUTHOR: EDWARD BISHOP

                                  THE EDITORIAL TEAM                                                                               AUTHOR: EDWARD BISHOP                                                                                               EDITOR IN CHIEF: BARRIE PITT                                                                                                   EDITOR: DAVID MASON                                                                                                             ART DIRECTOR: SARAH KINGHAM                                                                                         CONSULTANT EDITOR: JOHN KEEGAN                                                                                   CONSULTANT EDITOR: SYDNEY L. MAYER

COPYRIGHT: 1968 BY EDWARD BISHOP

FIRST PUBLISHING: MAY 1968     THIS EDITION'S PUBLISHING: FEBRUARY 1972

PUBLISHER: BALLANTINE BOOKS INC. 

**AGAIN AND AGAIN THE BRITISH FIGHTERS TORE INTO THE HUGE FORMATIONS OF HEAVILY ESCORTED GERMAN BOMBERS. SIX HURRICANES AGAINST SEVENTY DORNIERS; TWELVE SPITFIRES AGAINST ONE HUNDRED HEINKELS.  IT WAS SUMMER, 1940, AND "THE FEW", A DWINDLING, GALLANT COMPANY OF ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER PILOTS WERE ALL THAT STOOD BETWEEN BRITAIN AND DEFEAT.