Spitfire: A Living Legend (Osprey Colour Series)

by Jeremy Flack

Book Overview

Osprey Colour Series This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0850456193
• ISBN13: 9780850456196
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Osprey Pub Co
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Jeremy Flack's Spitfire tribute, vol. 1 from 3

Jeremy Flack has done several Spitfire photobooks, and this one is the first of them. Published in 1985, it gives photographs of all surviving Spitfires up to that moment which he could shoot between March 1984 and February 1985, resulting in a 120-page photobook with very pleasing colour photographs. Unlike the famous Spitfire book by Dibbs and Holmes (also published by Osprey) there is also room for some detail photos of the Spitfire, but it lacks the background text and wartime pictures of the other book, that being more or less compensated by giving far more colour photographs of the surviving Spitfires and so being a perfect companion to the Dibbs/Holmes in my eyes.The 128 page 1992 Spitfire book by Jeremy Flack is named 'Spitfire: The Legend Lives on' and is a follow-on from 'Spitfire: A Living Legend', and includes all the new aircraft that have subsequently been restored. In 1994 Osprey came with yet another Spitfire title by Jeremy Flack -ISBN 1851526374- now with 192 pages, perhaps combining the two former books?

Jeremy Flack's Spitfire tribute, vol. 1 of 3

Jeremy Flack has done several Spitfire photobooks, and this one is the first of them. Published in 1985, it gives photographs of all surviving Spitfires up to that moment which he could shoot between March 1984 and February 1985, resulting in a 120-page photobook with very pleasing colour photographs. Unlike the famous Spitfire book by Dibbs and Holmes (also published by Osprey) there is also room for some detail photos of the Spitfire, but it lacks the background text and wartime pictures of the other book, that being more or less compensated by giving far more colour photographs of the surviving Spitfires and so being a perfect companion to the Dibbs/Holmes in my eyes.

Jeremy Flack's Spitfire tribute, vol. 1 of 3

Jeremy Flack has done several Spitfire photobooks, and this one is the first of them. Published in 1985, it gives photographs of all surviving Spitfires up to that moment which he could shoot between March 1984 and February 1985, resulting in a 120-page photobook with very pleasing colour photographs. Unlike the famous Spitfire book by Dibbs and Holmes (also published by Osprey) there is also room for some detail photos of the Spitfire, but it lacks the background text and wartime pictures of the other book, that being more or less compensated by giving far more colour photographs of the surviving Spitfires and so being a perfect companion to the Dibbs/Holmes in my eyes.The 128 page 1992 Spitfire book by Jeremy Flack is named 'Spitfire: The Legend Lives on' and is a follow-on from 'Spitfire: A Living Legend', and includes all the new aircraft that have subsequently been restored. In 1994 Osprey came with yet another Spitfire title by Jeremy Flack ... now with 192 pages, perhaps combining the two former books?