Alex Kershaw

The Few: the American Alex Kershaw

Publisher Marketing: It was the summer of 1940, and World War II had been raging for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of England to seal Europe s fate. Though the United States was still a neutral country, a few Americans decided they couldn t remain on the sidelines. They joined Britain s Royal Air Force to defend the country with the future of civilization hanging in the balance. "The Few" tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of these Americans who defied their own country s neutrality laws and risked their very citizenship to fight side-by-side with England s finest pilots. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became knights of the air who, with minimal training but plenty of guts, dueled the skilled and fearsome aces of Germany s Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Some five years later, at war s end, just one of them would be alive. Winston Churchill once said famously of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. These daring Americans were the few among the few. " Review Citations: Library Journal 02/12/2007 (EAN 9781423315902, Compact Disc) Kliatt 01/01/2007 pg. 55 (EAN 9781423315919, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Kirkus Best Books 05/15/2006 pg. 16 (EAN 9780306813030, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2006 pg. 768 (EAN 9780306813030, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 08/21/2006 pg. 58 (EAN 9780306813030, Hardcover) Library Journal 10/15/2006 pg. 73 (EAN 9780306813030, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 10/01/2006 pg. 22 (EAN 9780306813030, Hardcover) Booksense '76 December 2006 12/01/2006 pg. 1 (EAN 9780306813030, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Kershaw, Alex Alex Kershaw has been a feature writer for "The Weekend Guardian" and the "Sunday Times", and a contributing editor at "GQ". He lives in Los Angeles. Contributor Bio:  Brick, Scott Scott Brick, actor, narrator, and writer, attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks, from thrillers and science fiction to classics and nonfiction. He has recorded more than six hundred audiobooks and won over fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has been honored with several Audie Awards and named a Golden Voice by "AudioFile" magazine.