First Light : The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies Above Britain

from alexbolding

Autobiographical memoir of the author's life as a Spitfire pilot during ww2. Contains surprisingly well written, punctuated, brief sentences that are hard as nails and remind us of a different kind of English - jolly. Like when he takes his first training flight in a Tiger Moth and reflects rathe...

from jmkemp

If you want to know what it was like to be a spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, then this is the book you need to read. The author was a public schoolboy that joined the RAF just before the outbreak of war. He signed up in the spring of 1939 and started training as soon as he finished schoo...

from lamour

This a truly remarkable book. Wellum kept notes during his time training to fly Spitfires in the period before and during the Battle of Britain. In the 1990's he took those notes and wrote this book. He is very open about the stress of day after day of facing death and how it changed him and othe...

from alexbolding

Autobiographical memoir of the author's life as a Spitfire pilot during ww2. Contains surprisingly well written, punctuated, brief sentences that are hard as nails and remind us of a different kind of English - jolly. Like when he takes his first training flight in a Tiger Moth and reflects rathe...

from Gary-Bonn

I thought I had read every first-hand account of the Battle of Britain. For some mysterious reason family, extended family, friends and enemies think I like them and fill my bookshelves. This one came as a surprise. Written maybe fifty years after, the author wrote at a time the culture of the UK...