Life as a Battle of Britain Spitfire Pilot

by Hannah Holman and Arthur Gerald Donahue

Summer 1940, Britain is on the brink, fewer than 3,000 RAF fighter pilots stand between Hitler's Luftwaffe and air supremacy over the skies of southern England - the prerequisite for a German invasion. What was it like to fly a Spitfire? To shoot down a German bomber over London? Or to be shot down by the closely matched Messerschmitt Me 109? This concise account of daily life in August and September 1940, written by a fighter pilot who fought in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445644681
• ISBN13: 9781445644684
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages