BOY'S OWN BATTLE OF BRITAIN

In a fun-packed celebration of the Battle of Britain, artist Peter Cross recounts the events of the summer of 1940 in a series of paintings. He depicted "our finest hour" as the last great "Boy's Own" adventure restaging it as a home match in which the swinnish bovver boys of St Hitla's take on the underdog home team of our lads from Biggin Hill School. As the match proceeds the reader will meet the leaders of both sides - the home team's shrewd senior housemaster Mr Dowdy and respected headmaster , Mr Winston, and the opposition's fiendish Mr Adolfus and loathsome Fatty Goering. Although the competition is fierce and the weaponry formidable - Spitfire bicycles and the Meshermschmitt motor mowers - in the end at the final whistle, "the few" are victorious. Peter Cross has also illustrated "Trouble for Trumpets" and "And All This".