The silver Spitfire

de Tom Neil

"During the build-up to the Allied invasion of Northern Europe, Battle of Britain hero Tom "Ginger" Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own personal aeroplane. Erasing any evidence of its provenance and stripping it down to bare metal, it became the RAF's only silver Spitfire. He took his plane into battle alongside his US comrades until, with the war's end, he was forced to make a difficult decision. Faced with too many questions about the rogue fighter, he contemplated increasingly desperate measures to offload it, including bailing out mid-Channel. He eventually left the Spitfire at Worthy Down, never to be seen again. THE SILVER SPITFIRE is the unique and gripping account of Tom Neil's heroic experience as an RAF fighter pilot, flying his very own Spitfire"--Cover.