The Most Dangerous Enemy

The Most Dangerous Enemy: "The magnitude and vital importance of the Battle of Britain has found a superb chronicler in Stephen Bungay, whose book is the best single-volume history to be published in over a decade." - Andrew Roberts

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. It presents the idea 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 it was the Germans 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.