Spitfire pilot - D. M Crook

Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF
stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a
tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised
air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot
of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that
epic contest.Often hopelessly outnumbered, in their state-of-the-art
Spitfires, Crook and his colleagues committed acts of unimaginable
bravery against the Messerschmidts and Junkers. Many did not make it and
the author describes the void they leave in the squadron with great
poignancy.