Showing Their Finest Hour: The Story of the Battle of Britain 1940 by Edward Bishop

Again and again the British fighters tore into the huge formations of heavily escorted German bombers. Six Hurricanes against seventy Doriers; 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.