Pubs, Pilots, and the Battle of Britain
The story of the Battle of Britain told through the pubs that kept Fighter Command flying, with a gazetteer guiding readers to every surviving bar.
In the summer of 1940 the Few fought over southern England by day and rebuilt themselves by night in the pubs at the airfield gates. Pubs, Pilots, and the Battle of Britain follows Fighter Command group by group and station by station, from the Unicorn at Chichester to the White Hart at Brasted, showing how landlords, landladies, and regulars became part of the machinery that kept exhausted young pilots in the air. A full gazetteer records what became of every pub, which still trade, and where a reader can raise a glass where the pilots did.