Michie and Walter Graebner — Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Last year’s Battle of Britain will go into the books as one of the most epic—if not the most decisive—in history. It was like Marathon ...

This Spitfire had it all. It was a Mark Vc, the distillation of everything the Royal Air Force had learned in the desperate days of the Battle of Britain. "This is the gold standard," Martin ...

Extracted from Men of the Battle of Britain by Kenneth G Wynn, third edition, 2015, Frontline Books in association with Battle of Britain Memorial Trust.