The Battle Of Britain: Three Days That Saved The Nation

Tues -Thurs, Channel 5, 9pm

A battle was fought in the skies over Britain in the summer of 1940 that kept the Nazis at bay, just when Hitler’s forces seemed poised for an invasion that would have changed history forever. Now, over three consecutive nights, historian Dan Snow and co-presenter Kate Humble (above) look back over the extraordinary chapter when all hope seemed to be lost, until the RAF saw off the Luftwaffe. They reconstruct the events around the peak of the fighting over crucial days in August and September, telling the story of the pilots, the ground crew and operations-room workers, who were all vital to making an unlikely victory possible.