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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Spurned in concept by the Air Marshals designed and built in secrecy at a moated manor house and flown out of an adjoining farm field the de Havilland Mosquito was the most successful and versatile military aircraft of the Second World War. Photographic-reconnaissance aircraft day fighter night fighter bomber mine-layer torpedo-bomber pathfinder tank-buster submarine- smasher the little Wooden Wonder powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines starred in just about every possible role. In 1938 as the war clouds gathered his proposal for a ‘wooden speed- bomber’ turned down in Whitehall Sir Geoffrey de Havilland said: ‘We’ll do it anyway’. Encouraged privately by Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman – for a while the project was known as Freeman’s Folly-the pioneer planemaker moved his design team into Salisbury Hall an historic house near St Albans in Hertfordshire and a few miles from his works at Hatfield. The prototype flew in November 1940 and very soon the Mosquito became a cottage industry as components were fashioned by furniture craftsmen piano makers pew carvers many other woodworking businesses and even by small groups of housewives in outhouses and garden sheds. (LL)