Nichol, John, — SPITFIRE - A VERY BRITISH LOVE STORY.

Simon and Schuster UK LTD, London, 2018, 13th imp., 434 pp., 8pp. colour photos, in text half tone photo ills., col'd pictorial endpapers, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by David Moore.an account of the Supermarine Spitfire, the Royal Air Force's most iconic fighter aircraft which with the Hawker Hurricane defeated the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain in 1940. Developed from the Supermarine entry for the Schneider Trophy in the 1930s the author describes the many innovations and updates of the Spitfire and the people who flew it, from the skies of Kent and Sussex to the those of Malta, North Africa and the Far East, then over the Normandy beaches, D-Day and Europe, edges lightly tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at tips, relined at head of spine and head of upperr flap fold, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,