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Article: Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend. Leo McKinstry. John Murray. [pounds sterling]20.00. x + 435 pages. ISBN 978-0-7195-6874-9. As Leo McKinstry writes, sixty years after the end of the war the Spitfire 'continues to grip the imagination of the public'. It stands as the symbol of the British war effort. It was, arguably, due to this aeroplane that British victory was ultimately won. While the book's emphasis is inevitably on the role of the aircraft during the war, the author devotes ...
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