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THE FEW by Alex Kershaw (2006) The Few: The American \"Knights of the Air\" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain Read by . . : Scott Brick Publisher . : Brilliance Audio (2006) ISBN . . . .: 1423315979 | 9781423315971 Format . . .: MP3. 16 tracks, 389 MB Bitrate . . : 96 kbps (from source CD, CBR, Mono, 44.1 kHz) Source . . .: 1 Mp3-CD (8.9 hrs) Genre . . . : Nonfiction, History, WWII Unabridged .: Unabridged As Winston Churchill said, \"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\" Tracks by chapter. Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included. Thanks for sharing & caring. Cheers, FerraBit Dec 2010 Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kershaw http://www.thefewbook.com Originally posted: http://thepiratebay.se/user/FerraBit http://www.kickasstorrents.com/user/FerraBit/ Taken the time to read this? Take some more, and leave me a nice note of encouragement. Got your FPL card? _____________________________________________________ From thefewbook.com: By the summer of 1940 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.\" From Wiki: Alex Kershaw taught history at Whitgift school for two years before working as a journalist for several British newspapers, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Times. His journalism has appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines around the world. He has also worked as a writer and producer in television, penning an award-winning documentary about Bobby Kennedy. Several of his books have been optioned by Hollywood, including The Few which was selected as the Military Book Club\'s first ever book of the year in 2006. He has been cited as a \"master storyteller\" by Booklist for his work on The Few. From Publishers Weekly: With his customary narrative drive, Kershaw (The Bedford Boys: One American Town\'s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice) spotlights the handful of American pilots who joined the Royal Air Force and its fighter squadrons during the Battle of Britain. They have been overshadowed by or confused with the better-known Eagle Squadrons, which formed in the autumn of 1940 with the tacit consent of the U.S. government. Kershaw\'s \"few\" were a vanguard, enlisting individually to operate the British Spitfire planes as early as May 1940, when England stood alone and her odds of survival seemed long. Crusaders and adventurers, the pilots ignored U.S. neutrality acts to fight from a mixture of principled opposition to Nazism, vaguely defined Anglophilia and sheer love of air combat at a time when it still seemed glamorous. Scattered by ones and twos among different squadrons, each had his own story, which Kershaw admirably contextualizes within the climate of the Battle of Britain. Using personal vignettes to convey the extraordinary routines of life in the cockpits, in the squadrons and in England, Kershaw evokes the heroism of these pilots, only one of whom survived the war whose tide they helped turn.

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