Its iconic name has become synonymous with the RAF's victory during the Battle of Britain - but it's been claimed that the Spitfire was almost called the Shrew. The chief designer of the plane thought ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “No aircraft is as hallowed as the Spitfire,” Holland concludes. For Britain’s sake, it’s probably a good thing that the assessors never gave the P.24 a fighting ...

JONATHAN Glancey's new book traces the full history of the Spitfire aeroplane from concept and design to prototype and war machine. In words and pictures, the Guardian's Architecture editor - himself ...

We tend to think of the Spitfire’s role in the Battle of Britain and very little else. So popular was the image of the plane that in 1940-41 the British public donated £13 million to Spitfire funds, ...

Headline has landed Spitfire Kids by Alasdair Cross, based on the hit BBC World Service podcast series “Spitfire: The People’s Plane”, and using first-person accounts of those who worked with the ...

On a clear, bright winter morning in 1944 former Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot David Crook took off from a base in Scotland on a training mission. Shortly afterwards his Spitfire crashed into the ...

BRIEF CANDLES—Aldous Huxley—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Author Aldous Huxley, once considered merely cynical and brightly shocking, has gradually forced readers to take him seriously. His wit curbed, ...

Documents connected to North Warwickshire and World War II have been handed over to the County Record Office for safe-keeping. They were recently discovered in council offices in Atherstone, and will ...

Two men are fighting back against the "chick lit" phenomenon by setting up a publishing company exclusively for men's and boys' books. David Elliot and Brad Thompson want to attack the "namby-pamby, ...