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Title: Spitfire: The Biography
Author: GLANCEY JONATHAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/08/2020
Imprint: ATLANTIC BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolise Britain’s defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940.
Spitfire: The Biography is a celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered it. It is also about a boy who wished he could have been a Second World War fighter pilot and who was later able to fly the aircraft that took his father into combat.
ISBN: 9781838950699
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 304