Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A best-selling in-depth history of the pivotal World War II battle draws on the firsthand perspectives of pilots, ground crews and commanders on both sides, in an account that places the campaign against a backdrop of the political forces that shaped it. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.   Publisher Summary 2 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. 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鈥攚hile 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 world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. With Wings Like Eaglesbrings to vivid life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict鈥攆rom Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Hermann G脰ring to the ground crews, the German pilots, the American volunteers, and the courageous airmen and airwomen of the RAF.