The book by John Braham, a renowned fighter pilot in the British Royal Air Force, takes the reader into the thick of the air battles of World War II. Braham fascinatingly reproduces numerous attacks by British fighters, describes the design features of the Beaufighters and Mosquitoes in which he had to fight, gives their detailed technical characteristics, talks about the coordinated actions of the pilot and navigator, about dangerous night missions, as well as about the time spent in German captivity after his plane was shot down over Denmark.