A poignant and evocative story, Brian Lane was killed in action
shortly after the book was first published.
A brilliant memoir of a noted Battle of Britain Spitfire ace.
Originally published in 1942 with a limited circulation due to
wartime paper shortages; it has remained out of print until
now.
Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic
account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in
the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six enemy 'kills' to his
credit and was awarded the DFC for bravery in combat. The text is
honest and vibrant, and has the immediacy of a book written close
the event, untouched, therefore, by the doubts and debates of later
years. Here we can read, exactly what it was like to 'scramble', to
shoot down Messerschmitts, Heinkels, Dorniers and Stukas and how it
felt to lose comrades every day. Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC was
not only an exceptional fighter pilot but likewise a gifted leader,
at all levels. In what was still a hierarchical and class conscious
culture, 'Chiefy' Lane was different: he knew everyone under his
command by first names, no matter how lowly their rank or status,
and in the air he was always unflappable, calmly making the right
tactical decision and in the process earning unlimited respect
amongst pilots and aircrew. All these years later the survivors
still speak of him with an unparalleled affection and respect
bordering upon a holy reverence. High drama has never before been
so characteristically understated, written, as it was, by the
'Finest of the Few'.
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