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The Silver Spitfire
- Author
- Tom Neil
- Narrator
- Roger Davis
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 26 November 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own personal aeroplane. Erasing any evidence of its provenance and stripping it down to bare metal, it became the RAF's only silver Spitfire.
Alongside his US comrades, he took the silver Spitfire into battle until, with the war's end, he was forced to make a difficult decision. Faced with too many questions about the mysterious rogue fighter, he contemplated increasingly desperate measures to offload it, including bailing out mid-Channel. He eventually left the Spitfire at Worthy Down, never to be seen again.
THE SILVER SPITFIRE is the first-hand, gripping story of Neil's heroic experience as an RAF fighter pilot and his reminiscences with his very own personal Spitfire.
Critics Review
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An icon of battle as well as one of the most successful pilots, Neil is uniquely qualified to tell a story that is both the ultimate military epic and also distinctly personal.
MILITARY TIMES
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Tom Neil is one of the last of the Few
BEST OF BRITISH, DAILY EXPRESS
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The first-hand, gripping story of Neil's heroic experience as an RAF fighter pilot and his reminiscences with his very own personal Spitfire.
ROYAL AIR FORCE NEWS
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Amusing and enjoyable.
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Details
- Author
- Tom Neil
- Narrator
- Roger Davis
- Duration
- 11 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 November 2019
- ISBN
- 9781474614504
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Autobiography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political and military, Second World War, Aircraft and aviation, Memoirs, Air forces and warfare, True war and combat stories
Synopsis
A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots.Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own personal aeroplane. Erasing any evidence of its provenance and stripping it down to bare metal, it became the RAF's only silver Spitfire. Alongside his US comrades, he took the silver Spitfire into battle until, with the war's end, he was forced to make a difficult decision. Faced with too many questions about the mysterious rogue fighter, he contemplated increasingly desperate measures to offload it, including bailing out mid-Channel. He eventually left the Spitfire at Worthy Down, never to be seen again.THE SILVER SPITFIRE is the first-hand, gripping story of Neil's heroic experience as an RAF fighter pilot and his reminiscences with his very own personal Spitfire.
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