The Most Dangerous Enemy A History of the Battle of Britain

Bungay's magisterial history was quickly accepted as the book about this central event in Britain's history and mythology - as the review quotes testify. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the acuity and intelligence of its strategical analysis and its sheer narrative drive, it is a book ultimately distinguished by the trenchancy of its conclusions - that it was the British in the Battle who displayed all the virtues of efficiency, organisation and even ruthlessness we habitually attribute to the Germans, and they who fell short in their amateurism, ill-preparedness, engineering substandards and even in their old-fashioned notions of gallantry.