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Subtitle: piloci, którzy sprzeciwili się ojczyźnie, by walczyć z Hitlerem
By: Alex Kershaw : tłumaczenie Anna Sak
Contributors: Sak, Anna
Edition: Wyd. 1.
Publisher: Znak
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Kraków
Language: pol
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9788324010707
Subjects: History; Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940; World War, 1939-1945; British Aerial operations; Americans; Aerial Military operations; British; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Fighter Command; Great Britain
Work titles: Few
Description: The never-before-told story of the American pilots--idealists, adventurers, romantics--who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. Eight young Americans joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940--over a year before America entered the war. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became "knights of the air" and with minimal training but plenty of guts, they dueled the skilled and fearsome pilots of Germany's Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Winston Churchill once said of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." These daring Americans were the few among the "few."--Publisher description.
Notes: Translation of: The few : the American "Knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in battle of Britain.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.