Spitfire the illustrated biography

  • First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940.
  • This is a fascinating account of the origins and development of the famed Spitfire, a key player in the air war 1939-1945.
  • First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940.

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    Spitfire - the Biography

    July 13, 2022
    Each time I sat down to read this, it was like someone slipped a Xanax into my cup of tea. My eyes would become heavy and lost in a haze of specifications and measurements, as I struggled to read more than ten pages before needing bed.

    Spitfires and the Battle of Britain are subjects that have interested me since childhood – so I was surprised at how bored I was during sections of this. I didn’t expect the author’s political views to be injected at times either, particularly the introduction. They felt out of place in a book on Spitfires, and quite puzzling to someone, like myself, who isn't from the UK.

    Spitfire: The Biography is a beautifully designed book. It feels good in your hands and has a great layout, nice font, high quality paper, with pictures and icons that effectively portray the planes and their people. All this perhaps due to Jonathan Glancey’s background in architecture and design. But it’s also a book riddled with tangents (some more interesting than others) and guilty of fact-bombing in a dry textbook-like way.

    While I understand this is a biography of a machine, it still had too much technical detail (overwhelmingly so). The book is undoubtedly at its best when talking about the Spitfire in action and particula

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    Spitfire: The Illustrated Biography

    July 13, 2022
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    Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. First Edition. This mint unmarked copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in mint condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940. Flown by pilots of many nations, it saw service as far afield as Australia and the Soviet Union. "Spitfire: The Biography" is a celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it, and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered it. It is also about a boy who wished he could have been a Second World War fighter pilot and wh

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