TIME-LIFE EPIC OF FLIGHT SERIES: THE RAF AT WAR

Publisher: Time Life Books

Year published: 1981

Pagination: Large format, c176pp, numerous col & b/w ills

Condition: Very good

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Blue embossed boards with illustrated front cover. When Britain went to war in 1939 the strength of the Royal Air Force amounted to 118,000 regulars, however the Luftwaffe, an armada of more than 500,00 men, outnumbered the RAF several times over. A year later German bombers would blitz London, and new, untrained RAF pilots would challenge German belief in their aerial supremacy. This splendid Time-Life Epic of Flight by Ralph Barker, tells the story of those heroic 'Few' in words and pictures