Customer Reviews

A thrilling, yet poignant read - By: Alex Mcleod, 04 Nov 2006
Although not quite as good or anywhere near as long as First Light by Geoffrey Wellum, I couldn't put this book down and, as with Geoffrey Wellum's excellent book, was sorry to finish it. They both paint a very vivid picture of what it was to be a fighter pilotin run up to the summer of 1940. The wonderful freedom & exhilaration they felt during training, the edge of the seat descriptions of aerial combat & their extremely moving thoughts when one of them fails to return -in Spitfire Pilot there seems so many.

Spitfire Pilot ended far too quickly unfortunately, as did the life of it's author, which is what makes this such a poignant read.