SILVER SPITFIRE (WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON) (PB)

Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire and stripped it down to bare metal. It became his own personal aeroplane – and the RAF's only silver Spitfire. He took the silver Spitfire into battle but, with too many questions about the mysterious rogue fighter, he contemplated increasingly desperate measures to offload it. He eventually left the Spitfire at Worthy Down, never to be seen again.