Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

Sea Power, Dec 2000

FINEST HOUR: The Battle of Britain, by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig. New York, N.Y.: Simon&Schuster, 2000. 350 pp. $27.50. [Internet: www.simonsays.com] Companion to the PBS series. "A testament to a year when a nation's darkest hour became its finest" is an apt description of Clayton and Craig's Finest Hour.

The authors draw on more than 100 original interviews and thousands of primary documents to tell the stories of the knownand unknown-men and women who put their lives on the line to stand up to the Nazi menace. Prominent historical figures-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R. Murrow, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Winston Churchill-are presented in a new light. A worthwhile read about this chapter in history. With bibliography, notes, index, and 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.