Thank you to the friends who read the rough draft and encouraged me to do more with it.
You know who you are.
Thank you to Jim Simpson for allowing the use of his Lysander aircraft photograph which was incorporated into the cover design.
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Speech to the House of Commons June 4, 1940.