Dogfight: True Stories of Dramatic Air Action

Dogfight places the reader in the cockpit during some of the greatest air battles of modern warfare. From the First World War, where we get a rare insight into the fighter operations over the fields of France. Through to the incredible aeronautics of the Battle of Britain, when the bravery of RAF fighter pilots saw off the might of the Luftwaffe, Alfred Price explores the horrifying loss of life inflicted on the Soviet Union by Hitler's Blitzkrieg offensive, when more than 300 aircraft fell in air-to-air combat in one day. The daring exploits of the US Eighth Air Force on `The Big B', their attack on Berlin on 6 March 1944 highlights the power of fighter planes when supported by bomber crews.