The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain

Synopsis

'The magnitude and vital importance of the Battle of Britain has found a superb chronicler in Stephen Bungay' Andrew Roberts Stephen 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. Since its first publication in 2000 the author has become a respected authority in television documentaries and lecturing on the Battle to the RAF itself. Now his book is reissued with a stunning new cover to reinvigorate sales to a whole new market. 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. An unputdownable read for the military scholar, the management consultant and the general reader alike, this is a classic of military history whose continuing sales reflect its canonical status. Stephen Bungay is a fellow of Ashridge College in Hertfordshire, and also the author of Alamein (Aurum) and Making Strategy Happen (Nicholas Brealey 2009.)