Chester Comix: The Battle of Britain app for iPhone and iPad

This graphic adventure shows the battle that finally stopped Adolf Hitlers war machine as it swallowed Europe 70 years ago! Chester the Crab puts you right in the cockpit to describe the struggle of democratic nations against fascist nations trying to supply easy answers at the end of a gun. This colorful graphic novel in digital form will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests in history, and help homeschooling parents!

* ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Bentley Boyd graduated from Harvard University in 1990 with a degree in History and Literature. He has been a professional cartoonist for 15 years and is a passionate advocate for the use of the graphic novel format to enliven non-fiction material for young readers. Boyd lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and makes full use of the surrounding historical resources to research, write and draw his books.

* ABOUT CHESTER COMIX -- Since 2003 Chester Comix LLC has offered graphic history adventures to young people. It currently has 28 titles in print reaching from Ancient Greece, Rome and Africa up to the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1960s; sample pages are viewable at www.chestercomix.com.

* APP FEATURES -- Panel by panel views; a story twice as long as the version that appears in the paperback comic "
World War 2 Tales;" pop-up windows to websites that give more detailed information about the scenes in the story; scroll bar for fast page navigation in forward or reverse; app remembers last page viewed and takes you automatically there when you restart.