Spitfire Voices: Life as a Spitfire Pilot in the Words of the Veterans

by Dilip Sarkar

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Spitfire Voices represents an important oral history of the Spitfire from the fighter pilot's perspective. Drawing upon the personal letters, diaries and memories of their families and comrades, the author recounts the deeply moving stories of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. The book features the whole range of combat experienced by Spitfire pilots, from air combat to ground attack, deck-landings, crashes and bail-outs, victories and defeats. Copiously illustrated with photographs from the albums of the pilots concerned, Spitfire Voices represents exactly what it was like flying to war in a Spitfire - in the words of those who lived to tell their tales. includes 169 photographs
  • ISBN10 144560695X
  • ISBN13 9781445606958
  • Publish Date 15 June 2012 (first published 20 May 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Amberley Publishing
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 320
  • Language English