I have spent the whole of my life living in the shadow of the Battle of Britain. I say this because the Village that I’m from and indeed the road in which I grew up are less than half a mile from the runway at Biggin Hill. And throughout the whole of my life I’ve been fascinated by the Battle. Indeed during the 1980s I attended every single Biggin Hill Air Show and always headed for the Veterans’ tent where men of ‘The Few’ were selling and signing their autobiographies. So I was lucky to meet many of the famous names that helped save our country. There was always the added spice in this tent of the presence of German veterans such as their top scorer Adolf Galland. For anyone who would like to know a little bit more about the Battle, the pilots and their lives I would heartily