Battle Of Britain: Was It The Most Vital One For The UK In WWII? (forces.net)

The Battle of Britain in 1940 was a negative battle, but the one that mattered, writes Andrew Southam.

How can a battle with some of the smallest fighting casualties of any during a five-and-a-half-year global conflict with 544 fighter pilots lost, where the main feature was fighting in the air, and which had no clear victory be Britain’s most important of World War Two?