This book includes personal accounts of the combatants from both sides, both flying crews and ground staff, as well as eye-witness accounts of civilians caught up in the battle illustrate key moments and phases during the Battle. Equal attention is given to both the 'human' and 'machine' aspects and the book features photographs of airfields, control stations and plotting and sector operations rooms, pilots, ground crews, female auxiliaries, the civilian front, anti-aircraft, searchlights, radar stations as well as Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Command aircraft giving a true picture of the scale of the Battle and how it touched the lives of so many civilians.