Glorious Summer, by Robert Taylor

Outnumbered more than five to one at the outset, the odds were so heavily stacked against the RAF, the task looked almost hopeless. But as the ferocious aerial battles continued through the long summer months, the tactical skills, devotion and raw courage of the RAF's young flyers, gradually turned the tide. By September end, the battle was won and the defeated Luftwaffe retired to its plundered territories to lick its wounds.

The print depicts a young pilot Officer Geoffrey Page, later to become one of the RAF's most highly decorated fighter aces, powers his Mk 1 Hurricane over the country lane at the edge of the airfield, as he and his fellow No 56 Squadron pilots make their third scramble of the day.

Millennium Proof edition: Signed by nineteen Battle of Britain Hurricane pilots, and includes the print "Hunters of the Night", signed by two of the most successful Beaufighter pilots.     

The Signatures: