Spitfire on My Tail: A View from the Other Side
- ISBN-10
- 1854210637
- ISBN-13
- 9781854210630
- Category
- Fighter pilots
- Pages
- 331
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Authors
- Peter Osborne, Ulrich Steinhilper
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