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The Spitfire Story (Hardcover)

by Alfred Price (Author)
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Product details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld Military; 2nd Revised edition edition (28 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1854093053
  • ISBN-13: 978-1854093059
  • Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,017,127 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A history of the Spitfire, one of the most famous fighter aircraft, providing a complete design and production history from its pre-war origins through to its final post-war variant. This edition has been revised and expanded, and features additional artwork and cut-away drawings.


About the Author

Dr Alfred Price is a worldwide authority on aviation history and the leading name in Spitfire history. He writes on many aviation topics, and is the author of a bestselling book on the Battle of Britain, as well as Sky Battles and Sky Warriors in the Cassell Military Classics. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As fine a work on the subject as one could hope to find., 10 April 2006
By Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spitfire Story (Hardcover)
Just as "HMS Victory" was never decommissioned and went on to become the longest serving warship in any country's navy - and still is!, so there is a fully serviceable RAF Spitfire still operational with the Royal Air Force in the UK.

Anyone who has an interest in aircraft cannot fail to admire the Spitfire. There is something about that combination of genius of design coupled with the simplest of names which spells out legend. In this book, author Alfred Price has done the Spitfire justice and no reader could possibly be disappointed with the resultant work.

About the same size as a telephone directory - as also just about as thick, we are treated to page after page of fact and photograph. Each section adds it's own part to a story which slowly unfolds from the very beginning of this aircraft - an aircraft, incidentally which was originally designed purely to win the Schneider Trophy!, right through World War Two and beyond.

With important contributions made by not only those who flew them in wartime, but also from those who were on the receiving end as well, I consider this to be an outstanding record of a single type of aircraft which is probably unmatched anywhere.

Five stars are not enough for this excellent work.

NM
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As fine a work on the subject as one could hope to find., 10 April 2006
By Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews
(TOP 100 REVIEWER)   
Just as "HMS Victory" was never decommissioned and went on to become the longest serving warship in any country's navy - and still is!, so there is a fully serviceable RAF Spitfire still operational with the Royal Air Force in the UK.

Anyone who has an interest in aircraft cannot fail to admire the Spitfire. There is something about that combination of genius of design coupled with the simplest of names which spells out legend. In this book, author Alfred Price has done the Spitfire justice and no reader could possibly be disappointed with the resultant work.

About the same size as a telephone directory - as also just about as thick, we are treated to page after page of fact and photograph. Each section adds it's own part to a story which slowly unfolds from the very beginning of this aircraft - an aircraft, incidentally which was originally designed purely to win the Schneider Trophy!, right through World War Two and beyond.

With important contributions made by not only those who flew them in wartime, but also from those who were on the receiving end as well, I consider this to be an outstanding record of a single type of aircraft which is probably unmatched anywhere.

Five stars are not enough for this excellent work.

NM

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