Ebook: Spitfire pilot: a personal account of the Battle of Britain
Author: Crook David Moore
- Tags: World War 1939-1945, World War 1939-1945--Aerial operations British, Britain Battle of Great Britain 1940, Military operations Aerial--British, Spitfire (Fighter plane), Large type books, Personal narratives, Crook D. M. -- (David Moore), Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force. -- Squadron 609, World War 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations British, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives British, Military operations Aerial -- British, Great Britain
- Series: Reminiscence
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
- City: Oxford;Great Britain
- Edition: Large print ed
- Language: English
- epub
"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.;Airforce.;World War II.
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