Publisher's Synopsis
This is an analysis of British fighter planes during World War II. The book looks at the pace of the development of the planes during the war when production difficulties were encountered. It also looks at the men who flew them and for whom death was a constant companion.;The book looks at fighter planes such as the Boulton Paul P.82 Defiant, the Bristol Beaufighter, the Gloster Gladiator, and the Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire and the Westland Lysander and seekers such as the Blenheim long-range fighter, the Saunders-Roe Lerwick and spying Spitfires.