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Secret Spitfires : Britain's hidden civilian army / Howman & Cetintas with Gavin Clarke.
Van Pelt Library UG1242.F5 H69 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howman, Karl, 1952- author.
- Cetintas, Ethem, 1953-2021, author.
- Clarke, Gavin (Writer on technology), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd.
- Spitfire (Fighter plane)--Design and construction--History.
- Spitfire (Fighter plane).
- Military vehicle industry--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Military vehicle industry.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Great Britain--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
- Employees.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Women.
- War work.
- Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd--Employees--Biography.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- British.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, Gloucestshire : The History Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: John Gillespie Magee Jr: A Remarkable Life
- The Engineering and Design that Made the Spitfire Special
- ch. 1 The Road To Dispersal
- Spitfire Supply Lines Uncovered
- Race and Reaction: Birth of the Spitfire
- We Saw it Burn: Testimony from Inside the Firestorm
- Secret Saviour of the Spitfire
- ch. 2 People And Places Of The Secret Factories
- By the Numbers
- Secret Factories' Facts and Figures
- A Walk Through Supermarine's Hidden Design HQ
- How to Hide a Workforce
- This Island Salisbury: War Comes to the City
- ch. 3 Day In The Life Of A Factory
- Beatrice Shilling: The Woman who Saved the Spitfire
- Careless Talk Costs Lives
- From Prototype to Production
- Uncle Sam's Rolls-Royce Engines
- ch. 4 Take It Away: Test Pilots, Danger And The Ata
- Life on the Edge: The Test Pilots' Story
- One Idea, 24 Marques: Welcome to the Versatile Spitfire
- Spitefuls and Seafires
- The Spitfire in Pieces
- ch. 5 Clocking Off
- Life Outside The Factory Shift
- Not Just Digging for Victory
- Salisbury's Stars and Stripes Hospital
- Radio Days that Shaped a Nation
- The People of Secret Spitfires.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0750991992
- 9780750991995
- OCLC:
- 1124527978
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