Spitfire Pilot

“A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot” in World War II ( The Spectator ).   Spitfire Pilot 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.   Often hopelessly outnumb