The Spitfire Kids: The Generation Who Built, Supported and Flew Britain's Most Beloved Fighter
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About
Despite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just twenty years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.
Based on the hit BBC World Service podcast Spitfire: The People's Story, we use contemporary diaries and memoirs, many of them previously unpublished, to tell the story of the Spitfire through the voices of the teenagers who risked everything to design, build and fly her.
Based on the hit BBC World Service podcast Spitfire: The People's Story, we use contemporary diaries and memoirs, many of them previously unpublished, to tell the story of the Spitfire through the voices of the teenagers who risked everything to design, build and fly her.
- ISBN:
- 9781472281968
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-01
- Publisher:
- Headline
- Language:
- English
- Page Count:
- 359
- Size:
- 9.45" l x 6.29" w x 1.35" h
Info
- History and Geography
Category
- World War I and II
Subject