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By the summer of World War II had been under way for nearly a year 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 Britains Royal Air Force to fight Hitlers 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 countrys neutrality laws to fly side-by-side with Englands 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 Germanys Luftwaffe in the blue skies over England They shot down several of Germanys fearsome aces and were feted as national heroes in Britain By October they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation At wars end just one of the Few would be alive The others died flying wearing the RAFs 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.



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Alex Kershaw

Alex Kershaw is the author of the widely acclaimed best sellers The First Wave, The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, The Few, #TheLiberator, the basis for the Netflix drama, and Escape from the Deep, as well as biographies of Jack London, Raoul Wallenberg and Robert Capa. His latest book is Against All Odds, published March 2022.



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