Paul Richey was an RAF pilot whose memoirs of the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain, originally published as Fighter Pilot, were a first of their kind and an immediate popular success. His account of intense aerial combat and daring maneuvers is rendered with remarkable directness. Richey's style is stripped of embellishment, placing the reader directly in the cockpit.
This is an account of the part played by No 1 Squadron in the air battles that preceded the fall of France in 1940. Richey himself was a Hurricane pilot in the squadron, and this book is based on a personal journal begun on the day he landed in France, through the combat of the "Blitzkrieg".