cover image The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

Richard Hough. W. W. Norton & Company, $17.95 (413pp) ISBN 978-0-393-30734-4

A definitive account of the three-month air battle in 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. ``This is a first-rate work of scholarship written for the general reader,'' concluded PW. Photos. (Sept.)