SPITFIRE!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot
Автор:Brian Lane Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 192 ISBN: 1848683545 A poignant and evocative story, Brian Lane was killed in action shortly after the book was first published. A brilliant memoir of a noted Battle of Britain Spitfire ace. Originally published in 1942 with a limited circulation due to wartime paper shortages; it has remained out of print until now. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six enemy 'kills' to his credit and was awarded the DFC for bravery in combat. The text is honest and vibrant, and has the immediacy of a book written close the event, untouched, therefore, by the doubts and debates of later years. Here we can read, exactly what it was like to 'scramble', to shoot down Messerschmitts, Heinkels, Dorniers and Stukas and how it felt to lose comrades every day. Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC was not only an exceptional fighter pilot but likewise a gifted leader, at all levels. In what was still a...
