Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

Brian Lane was only 23 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 to 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, Do...