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    How to Build a Spitfire by Price, David;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 23 October 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781800242326
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 238x160x34 mm
    • Weight 520 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations b&w integrated images
    • 700

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    Short description:

    A unique homage to the fighter aircraft that won the Battle of Britain, marrying the story of how the author built a replica Spitfire in his garden with the plane's operational history.

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    Long description:

    A unique homage to the fighter aircraft that won the Battle of Britain, marrying the story of how the author built a replica Spitfire in his garden with the plane's operational history.

    In April 2018 David Price, dedicated aviation museum volunteer and author of THE CREW and MOSQUITO MEN, decided to build a Spitfire replica in his back garden. In How to Build a Spitfire he juxtaposes the story of the ups and down of his own ambitious project to recreate an icon of British aviation with a narrative of the development of the Spitfire itself, focusing in particular on the construction and production of the aircraft and its various component parts (including the Merlin engine), amplified by the testimonies of some of those who worked in the Supermarine factory in Southampton and in other Spitfire production facilities.

    Bringing together the sometimes light-hearted tale of a personal quest, enthusiastically pursued, with an accessible but authoritative account of the technical workings of a war-winning weapon, and the stories of some of the men who flew it, How to Build a Spitfire is a distinctive and affectionate homage to an enduring symbol of British engineering genius and national resilience.

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