The Right of the Line

Award–winning historian and scriptwriter John Terraine’s The Right of the Line reveals how the British Royal Air Force rose to prominence in World War II. Traditionally, the right of the line is the vanguard, the place of honor and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform had, by the end of the war, taken up its proper pos