with wings like eagles the untold story of the battle of britain
p in the summer of 1940 fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the royal air force stood between hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp . p in this superb history of three epic months that saved the world michael korda brilliantly re creates the intensity of combat in the long delirious burning blue of the sky above southern england while tracing perhaps for the first time the entire complex web of political diplomatic scientific industrial and human decisions during the 1930s that inexorably led to the worlds first greatest and most decisive air battle . with wings like eagles brings to vivid life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict from winston churchill neville chamberlain and reichsmarschall hermann goring to the ground crews the german pilots the american volunteers and the courageous airmen and airwomen of the raf .