Secret Spitfires : Britain's hidden civilian army /: Britain's hidden civilian army. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Howman & Cetintas with Gavin Clarke.
• Authors: Howman, Karl, 1952-; Çetintaş, Ethem; (Writer on technology), Clarke, Gavin
• Other Names: Parker, Norman 1926- contributor.
• Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Maggie Appleton MBE, CEO RAF Museum -- Foreword: by Maj. Gen. (ret.) Frederick F. Roggero USAF -- High Flight -- Introduction: Building a Legend -- John Gillespie Magee Jr: A Remarkable Life -- The Engineering and Design that Made the Spitfire Special -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 Chapter 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 -- Norman Parker: From Barnardo's Boy to Spitfire Historian -- Secret Spitfires' Next Chapter -- About the Authors -- Credits and Contributors -- Notes
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, Gloucestshire : The History Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 623.74642; Spitfire (Fighter plane) -- Design and construction -- History; Military vehicle industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British; Véhicules militaires -- Industrie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Récits personnels britanniques; Employees; Military vehicle industry; War work; Women; Great Britain; Biography; Personal Narrative; Personal narratives; Biographies; History; Personal narratives -- British; Biographies; Personal narratives; Biographies; Récits personnels; Employees -- Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780750995504; 0750995505
• Related ISBNs: 0750991992; 9780750991995
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2020).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.