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As we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain last summer, it once again struck me quite how much so many of us owe to those few. Had Britain not maintained aerial superiority, then perhaps Hitler’s planned invasion would have taken place, and what a different world that may have created! Of course, it wasn’t as simple as that, and Hitler’s view of Britain changed a number times throughout his life, as Gavin Mortimer explains from page 39. Gavin also guides us through the many and varied ways in which the nation braced itself for Nazi invasion from page 27.