The Most Dangerous Enemy

Author: Stephen Bungay

British & Irish history | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 | Second World War | Air forces & warfare

Published on 6^th August 2015 by Quarto Publishing PLC (Aurum) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 512 pages
155mm x 234mm x 39mm | 596g

Stephen Bungay’

s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain.

Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by 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, poor engineering and even in their old-fashioned notions of gallantry.

An engrossing read for the military scholar and the general reader alike, this is a classic of military history that looks beyond the mythology, to explore all the tragedy and comedy; the brutality and compassion of war.