Description
Title: Spitfires Over Darwin 1943
Author: Grant, Jim
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 3rd Edition
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0646236326
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 208 pages
Comments: A now scarce account of the small band of inexperienced Australian and British fighter pilots who fought an ongoing air battle in defence of north-western Australia, flying against a formidably skilled and proficient opponent. The air raids on Darwin during 1942-43 constituted the only sustained and intensive direct assault on Australian mainland territory in the whole of World War Two and yet, surprisingly, most Australians have no idea that it ever happened.
The condition would be near mint had there not been a 2cm x 1cm stain on the inside of the front cover and front end paper, that was leaked through to the title page, contnets page, list of tables acknowledgements page. Stain reduces in size as each page is turned.
