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  Spitfire Pilot (Paperback) By (author) David Crook, By (author) Richard Overy

  

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  Short Description for Spitfire PilotWritten in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich, this work presents a 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.
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  • Publisher: GRUB STREET
  • Published: 30 June 2008
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military | Air Forces & Warfare | British & Irish History | Military History | Second World War
  • ISBN 13: 9781906502041 ISBN 10: 1906502048
  • Sales rank: 82,657

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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 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.