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Entries from November 2008

“The Few” Americans in the Battle of Britain

November 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Alex Kershaw’s The Few: The American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940 is an exciting biographical narrative about three American flyers who left the United States in 1940 to fly against Hitler’s Germany.
The heroic profiles penned by Kershaw paint a vivid picture of the joys […]

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