Author: Hoyland, Graham,
Title: MERLIN - THE POWER BEHIND THE SPITFIRE, MOSQUITO AND LANCASTER.
Description: William Collins, London, 2020, 1st edn.., 358 pp. in text and full page half tone photo ills., exploded line drwing of the 1280hp Merlin angine at endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the conception, birth and development of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, the power source for the well known Avro Lancaster bomber, the Supermarine Spitfire fighter and the de Havilland Mosqito, all of which get a mention in the title, but also the North American P-51 Mustang, without which the US 8th Air Force would have been without fighter cover into the heart of Germany, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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