The Bedford Boys
by Alex Kershaw | 
The Longest Winter
by Alex Kershaw | 
Escape from the Deep
by Alex Kershaw | 
Avenue of Spies
by Alex Kershaw | 
Fighter Boys
by Patrick Bishop |
The Most Dangerous Enemy
by Stephen Bungay | 
Masters of the Air
by Donald L. Miller | 
With Wings Like Eagles
by Michael Korda | 
Fighter
by Len Deighton | 
Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer
by Brian D. O'Neill |
Duel of Eagles
by Peter Townsend | 
Battle of Britain
by Len Deighton | 
The Forgotten 500
by Gregory A. Freeman | 
The Mighty Eighth
by Gerald Astor |
The Dam Busters
by Paul Brickhill | 
Sea of Thunder
by Evan Thomas | 
A Higher Call
by Adam Makos | 
1939
by Richard Overy |
The Burma Road
by Donovan Webster | 
13 Hours
by Mitchell Zuckoff |
By the summer of 1940 World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler was triumphant and planning an invasion of England. But the United States was still a neutral country and, as Winston Churchill later observed, "the British people held the fort alone." A few Americans, however, did not remain neutral. They joined Britain's Royal Air Force to fight Hitler's air aces and help save Britain in its darkest hour. The Few is the never-before-told story of these thrill-seeking Americans who defied their country's neutrality laws to fly side-by-side with England's finest pilots. They flew the lethal and elegant Spitfire, and became "knights of the air." With minimal training and plenty of guts they dueled the skilled pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe in the blue skies over England. They shot down several of Germany's fearsome aces, and were feted as national heroes in Britain. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. At war's end, just one of the "Few" would be alive. The others died flying, wearing the RAF's dark blue uniform-each with a shoulder patch depicting an American eagle. As Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."