What are the best books on the spitfire?

If you can lay your hands on a copy, “Spitfire – The Story Of A Famous Fighter” by the late Bruce Robertson ain’t too bad a choice either. 🙂

Cheers

Paul

It sometimes appears on eBay – that’s where I got mine, albeit with a tatty cover!

If you can lay your hands on a copy, “Spitfire – The Story Of A Famous Fighter” by the late Bruce Robertson ain’t too bad a choice either. 🙂

Cheers

Paul

Daz has already listed it, but ‘The Spitfire Story’ by Alfred Price I found to be a very comrehensive book on the evolution of the Spitfire. The author interviewed many people who were involved in development of the aircraft. Jeffrey Quill in the foreword calls it ‘…a valuable historical work…’ and Dr Gordon Mitchell in the Preface remarks, ‘All who wish to learn more of the little fighter….must not fail to read The Spitfire Story …’

That is quite a collection Daz!

Thanks a lot for the guidance guys – I will try to pick a few of those up – maybe i’ll see them at shoreham 😀

Have a good weekend all & cheers for the help.

That’s not all of them 😉

Probably miniscule compared to others, though!

Spitfire MK V manual. the RAF Museum series, recently reprinted.

Cheers

Cees

Spitfire The History Morgan and Shacklady Key Publishing.

That is quite a collection Daz!

Thanks a lot for the guidance guys – I will try to pick a few of those up – maybe i’ll see them at shoreham 😀

Have a good weekend all & cheers for the help.

Best one i ever read was’ from the cockpit’ by Wing Com.Tom Neil

Excellent book.

The two Datafile ones have lots of close-up photos of some aspects of the various marks – and a good few models built by the author with tips on building and finishing various versions. They also have various scale drawings etc.

I just listed the books I have – better to list them all than to try and differentiate! 😉

(I forgot “Story of a famous fighter” as I couldn’t see the title too clearly from here! :rolleyes: )

I would add Spitfire International, published by Air Britain. Whilst not particularly technical it does give an insight into the various airforces that operated her with histories of the aircraft service.

Spitfire – The History

The Spitfire Story – Alfred Price

Spitfire at War 1,2 and 3 – Alfred Price. You’re more likely to find the first two in one
volume: Spitfire – A Complete Fighting History

Spitfire in Combat – Alfred Price

Spitfire – A Documentary History – Alfred Price

Spitfire – Flying Legend – John Dibbs and Tony Holmes.

2nd TAF Spitfire – Hugh Smallwood

Spitfire in Blue – Hugh Smallwood

Spitfire – Squadron/Signal publication

Modeller’s Datafile 3 – Supermarine Spitfire part 1 – Merlin-powered

Modeller’s Datafile 5 – Supermarine Spitfire part 2 – Griffon-powered

That’s just the ones on my shelf – Mark12 must have about four or five times that figure to hand! 😀