Spitfire Pilot
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Spitfire Pilot
By (Author) David Crook
Introduction by Richard Overy
Grub Street Publishing
Grub Street Publishing
30th June 2008
30th June 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
European history
Second World War
Modern warfare
Air forces and warfare
940.544941092
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 128mm, Height 196mm
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.
