By: Bowyer, Chaz. Foreword by Group Captain T.P. Gleave.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher:
Shepperton, Ian Allan: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 25252
ISBN: 0711005648
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good-
160 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "The Hawker Hurricane has a permanent niche in the annals of military aviation history as the world's first operational eight-gun monoplane fighter and the RAF's first front-line fighter to achieve more than 300mph in level flight. But it has received little credit for its subsequent lion's share of the defence of the United Kingdom during the 1940 Battle of Britain, and its later service in a score of fighting roles across every theatre of operations during the 1939-45 war. In this book the author sets out to redress this...
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