The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain

From the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes a rousing tale of little-known heroes (Booklist).The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who 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.