The Supermarine Spitfire was one of the greatest Allied fighter planes of World War II. Accounts of its successful air-to-air combat from the Battle of Britain to D-Day and the end of the war are the stuff of legend--but they do not tell the complete story. Author E.A.W. Smith, himself a Spitfire pilot, reveals the rest of the amazing story of this extraordinary fighting machine in this unique and landmark memoir.