Spitfire on My Tail
- ISBN-10
- 1872836798
- ISBN-13
- 9781872836799
- Category
- Fighter pilots
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-04-01
- Authors
- Peter Osborne, Ulrich Steinhilper
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