Alice, the author's mother, is mentioned frequently in this account
of his book. A disciplinarian to no small degree, she did her best
in the trying pre-war times of unemployment. A fair amount of the
author's recollections concerns the ups and downs of life in the
small Derbyshire town of Clowne in the thirties. The history and
records of shops and ownership in Clowne might be said to be as
meticulous as the records in the Doomsday book!
But what makes this volume most valuable is the author's
memories and insights into that ballerina of the skies, the
Spitfire, the key player in the Battle of Britain. And who better
qualified to sing these praises than a Spitfire pilot? For out of
Clowne came Geoffrey Lewis, a living legend now in his eighties,
one of our heroes who gives us first-hand information about his
'Spitty', apart from the absorbingly interesting account of his
aircraft training in Prince Albert, in Canada, prior to engaging
battle in Britain.
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