Spitfire Pilot

Spitfire Pilot

<DIV><B>“A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot” in World War II (<I>The Spectator</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /><I>Spitfire Pilot</I> 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.<BR />  <BR /> 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.<BR />  <BR /><I>Includes an introduction by historian Richard Overy</I></DIV>