THE FEW - Alex Kershaw. Read by Scott Brick {FerraBit}

THE FEW by Alex Kershaw (2006)



The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked 

 Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain



Read by . . : Scott Brick

Publisher . : Brilliance Audio (2006)

ISBN . . . .: 1423315979 | 9781423315971

Format . . .: MP3. 16 tracks, 389 MB

Bitrate . . : 96 kbps (from source CD, CBR, Mono, 44.1 kHz)

Source . . .: 1 Mp3-CD (8.9 hrs)

Genre . . . : Nonfiction, History, WWII

Unabridged .: Unabridged



As Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human conflict 

was so much owed by so many to so few."



Tracks by chapter.

Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included.



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Dec 2010





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From thefewbook.com:



By the summer of 1940 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 Britain's 

Royal Air Force to fight Hitler's 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 country's neutrality laws to fly side-by-side with 

England's 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 Germany's Luftwaffe in the blue skies over England. They shot down 

several of Germany's fearsome aces, and were feted as national heroes in

Britain.



By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in 

the history of aviation. At war's end, just one of the "Few" would be 

alive. The others died flying, wearing the RAF's 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."





From Wiki:



Alex Kershaw taught history at Whitgift school for two years before working 

as a journalist for several British newspapers, including The Guardian, The 

Independent and The Sunday Times. His journalism has appeared in many leading 

newspapers and magazines around the world. He has also worked as a writer and 

producer in television, penning an award-winning documentary about Bobby Kennedy. 

Several of his books have been optioned by Hollywood, including The Few which 

was selected as the Military Book Club's first ever book of the year in 2006. 



He has been cited as a "master storyteller" by Booklist for his work on The Few.





From Publishers Weekly:



With his customary narrative drive, Kershaw (The Bedford Boys: One American 

Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice) spotlights the handful of American pilots 

who joined the Royal Air Force and its fighter squadrons during the Battle 

of Britain. They have been overshadowed by or confused with the better-known 

Eagle Squadrons, which formed in the autumn of 1940 with the tacit consent 

of the U.S. government. Kershaw's "few" were a vanguard, enlisting 

individually to operate the British Spitfire planes as early as May 1940, 

when England stood alone and her odds of survival seemed long. Crusaders and 

adventurers, the pilots ignored U.S. neutrality acts to fight from a mixture 

of principled opposition to Nazism, vaguely defined Anglophilia and sheer love 

of air combat at a time when it still seemed glamorous. Scattered by ones and 

twos among different squadrons, each had his own story, which Kershaw admirably 

contextualizes within the climate of the Battle of Britain. Using personal 

vignettes to convey the extraordinary routines of life in the cockpits, in the 

squadrons and in England, Kershaw evokes the heroism of these pilots, only one 

of whom survived the war whose tide they helped turn.