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Spitfire pilot : a personal account of the Battle of Britain

By David Crook Moore; Richard Overy

Book information

Publisher
Grub Street;ISIS
Year
2009
ISBN
9780753183427, 0753183420, 9780753183434, 0753183439, 978-1-906502-04-1, 1906502048, 978-1-909808-79-9
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1372884 bytes)
Series
Reminiscence
Edition
Large print ed
Pages
138\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
1939-1945 -- Aerial operations1939-1945 -- Personal narratives1940.;World War609.;BritainAerial -- British.;Great Britain.Battle ofBritish.;Spitfire (Fighter plane);Large type booksBritish.;World WarCrookD. M. -- (David Moore);Great Britain. -- Royal AirGreat Britain

Description

Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that epic contest. Often hopelessly outnumbered, in their state of the art Spitfires, Crook and his colleagues committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmidts and Junkers. Many did not make it and the author describes the absence they leave in the squadron with great poignancy. "Spitfire Pilot" is justly regarded as one of the classics of WWII and this new paperback edition, 66 years on, includes an introduction by the historian Richard Overy

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