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Spitfire Pilot

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Spitfire Pilot

A Brilliant First-Hand Account of the Life of a Fighter Pilot Before and During the Battle of Britai

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Pages

191

Year

2008

Language

English

Grub Street Publishing

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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 idealized air conflicts-the Battle of Britain-seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over one hundred planes in that epic contest. Often hopelessly outnumbered, David Crook and his colleagues, in their state-of-the-art Spitfires, committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmitts and the Junkers. Many did not make it-and Crook describes the absence they leave in the squadron with great poignancy. Includes an introduction by historian Richard Overy.

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