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    THE SPITFIRE KIDS

    Sep 20, 2022 1 minute

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    Headline, 368 pages, £8.99

    WW2

    Southampton riverside was the Silicon Valley of its time, a high-tech hub where the, which was published in May 2021 but is now available in paperback, is devoted to the wide range of people involved in the Spitfire programme. Alasdair Cross has managed to speak to many who were teenagers at the time for their personal recollections, which are supplemented with diary entries and letters. His book is full of tales of people who were snatched from a life of domestic service or delivering mail to work on the aeroplane. Some of the finance came from the Spitfire Fund, an early form of crowdfunding with a price list: 8s would buy a spark plug, £40 a fuel tank.

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