Luftwaffe attacked on July 10, 1940; German miscalculations led to a loss in first-ever all-air battle.

In the summer of 1940, the Luftwaffe sought to bomb Britain into surrender. For months, cities burned as Spitfires and Hurricanes battled German bombers above London, Coventry, and Portsmouth. This ...

I have to declare a personal stake that shapes my opinion as I write this story. It has its origins in 1940, 85 years ago this month. I was seven years old, living near London. I watched the ...

Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...

There is no shortage of books on the Battle of Britain, but Victoria Taylor, a young British historian, promises readers something different: looking at the battle from the German side, and ...

In the summer of 1940, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as the Luftwaffe prepared to crush Britain from the air. Fresh from their lightning victories in France and the Low Countries, German ...