Written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against Hitler's Third Reich, this is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts, the Battle Of Britain. Often hopelessly outnumbered, Flight Lieutenant David Crook and his colleagues committed acts of unimaginable bravery, and many didn't make it. This new edition, 68 years on, includes an introduction by the historian Richard Overy. 'A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot...' "Spectator"