Battle of Britain: A Second World War Spitfire Pilot 1939-1941

✍ Scribed by Priestley, Chris

• Book ID: 108096410
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 342 KB
• Series: My Story
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781407132945

✦ Synopsis

"OCTOBER 1940. I was out, free of my aircraft, tumbling wildly in the air. I pulled the ripcord. I was jerked back by the parachute as air punched into it and I swung there like a puppet, winded and gasping for breath. I looked down at my leg. It felt like a bear was gnawing on it but it was still in one piece. For now, anyway. Then I heard it - right behind me. An ME109 diving towards me, guns blazing. There was nothing I could do. Nowhere I could go. Shells whistled past me on either side. I just thought, OK then. if this is it, OK. Maybe my turn had finally come..." It's 1939 and Harry Woods is a Spitfire pilot in the RAF. When his friend Lenny loses his leg in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe, Harry is determined to fight on. That is, until his plane is hit and he finds himself tumbling through the air high above the English Channel...