Love, Death, Chariot of Fire

Reg Mitchell is a modest, decent man with a gift fordesigning fast aeroplanes. Two horrors seek him out terminal illness, and Nazi Germany's predicted invasion ofhis country. His response will change the course of worldhistory."Here is a splendid love story of maker for machine: aninventor's single-minded devotion to his imperilled country,and to the fighter plane that he hopes will save it. WintonHiggins handles the origin story of the Spitfire with thesurefootedness of the historian, and eloquence of the poet.His drama of creation is made all the more poignant by itsbackdrop of destruction: the collective destruction of war, andthe personal destruction of the cancer that Mitchell attemptsto outpace just long enough to get the job done."Sara Knox, author of The Orphan Gunner"If you love aeroplanes and even if you don't this book isa must. There is a saying among pilots 'if it looks good it willfly well' and there can be no better example than theSupermarine Spitfire, the graceful and deadly Britishsuperhero of World War II. The Spitfire evolved into a fighterplane that could out-climb, out-run, out-turn and out-fightanything in the sky. Pilots didn't like the Spitfire, they lovedit. Winton Higgins has written a fluent and brilliantlyresearched story of the Spitfire's designer Reg Mitchell, andthe creation of a unique classic aircraft. Spellbinding!"Peter Grose, author of A Good Place to Hide

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