It was the summer of 1940, and World War II had been raging for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of England to seal Europe�s fate. Though the United States was still a neutral country, a few Americans decided they couldn�t remain on the sidelines. They joined Britain�s Royal Air Force to defend the country - with the future of civilization hanging in the balance. The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of these Americans who defied their own country�s neutrality laws and risked their very citizenship to fight side-by-side with England�s finest pilots. Flying the lethal and elegant Spitfire, they became �knights of the air� who, with minimal training but plenty of guts, dueled the skilled and fearsome aces of Germany�s Luftwaffe. By October 1940, they had helped England win the greatest air battle in the history of aviation. Some five years later, at war�s end, just one of them would be alive. Winston Churchill once said famously of all those who fought in the Battle of Britain, �Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.� These daring Americans were the few among the �few.�