A ‘Diary’ of the Most Critical Ten Days of the Battle of Britain. Written by a prolific author – who started back when there were many veterans available for interviews – ...

Germany's blitzkrieg through France in June 1940 left the UK all alone against Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. It was also a wake up call for the U.S.- still on the sidelines of World War II - that its air ...

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," is how Winston Churchill put it in his famous speech describing the Battle of Britain, which began this week (July 10) in ...

At Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire-the beating heart of British vintage aircraft flying-the whine and roar of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines marked the 85th anniversary of the start of the Battle of ...

July 28, 1940. The Battle of Britain nears its climax. This video sets the stage for one of history's most debated aerial encounters. Meet the two leading aces: the Luftwaffe's tactical genius Werner ...

A remarkable never-before-seen photo archive charting the wartime heroics of one of 'The Few' has been unearthed on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Squadron Leader Jocelyn Millard, an ...

The Luftwaffe carried out raids on British urban targets for two months prior to the start of the Blitz, with the loss of over 1,000 civilian lives. Photo: Stukas in formation in April 1940. Stukas ...

Those who argue that historiographical consensus about a past event is impossible to achieve and that any event is always open to revision from another perspective need to exercise caution. Saluting ...

While the Battle of Britain had begun on July 10, 1940 – it was eighty years ago this week that the strategy of Nazi Germany shifted towards the large-scale night attacks known as “the Blitz.” From ...

07:59, Mon, Sep 14, 2020 Updated: 04:39, Wed, Sep 16, 2020 Nearly 3,000 men of the RAF took part in the Battle of Britain - a group Winston Churchill referred to as ‘The Few’. Men came from all over ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Acknowledging these factors isn’t to diminish the heroism of the RAF pilots who defended the United Kingdom. Fighter Command’s successful defense spared the UK more ...