Spitfire
Subtitle: the autobiography
By: edited by Jon E. Lewis
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781849013925
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945; Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940; British Aerial operations; Luftwaffe; British; Spitfire (Fighter plane); Air pilots; Spitfire; Aerial Military operations; Fighter pilots; History
Description: A celebration of the machine and the men who took to the skies in defence of Britain. It was not Stalingrad which turned the corner of the war against Hitler, it was the Spitfire in the summer of 1940 when RAF Fighter Command destroyed the myth of Nazi invincibility.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Taking wing: the birth of the Spitfire; title: First light: the Spitfire in action, September 1939-June 1940; title: Finest hours: the Battle of Britain, July-October 1940; title: Tally-ho!: the Spitfire offensive 1941-5.