Spitfire
Subtitle: The Combat History
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: August 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780760301937
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Sale Books - Adult; Military - Aviation; Reference; Spitfire (Fighter planes); Military - World War II; Sale Books; History; Aerial operations
First sentence: LOOKING AT the sleek lines of the Supermarine Spitfire today, it is hard to imagine that such a graceful aircraft was designed as a high speed killing machine - and one, moreover, that made its first flight years before the majority of enthusiasts who thrill to the sight and sound of it at air shows were even born.