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Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival. All that lies between invasion and salvation is the ‘thin blue line’ of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots. Discover what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940? How did they spend a typical day? Pitched together in combat at 30,000 feet, which was the better machine – Spitfire or Me109? Read Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot and then ask yourself: would I have been up to the job?

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JONATHAN FALCONER has written widely on RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. His published works include Stirling at War, RAF Bomber Airfields of World War Two, The Dambusters Story and Bomber Command Handbook 1939-1945. A senior commissioning editor, he lives in Bradford-on-Avon.

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