Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Greatest Pilot

by Paul Beaver

Book Overview

Eric 'Winkle' Brown was Britain's greatest pilot. His extraordinary flying career saw him fight in the Battle of Britain, narrowly escape death on a torpedoed aircraft carrier, achieve a litany of new records and firsts as a test pilot, and fly more kinds of aircraft than any other pilot in history. With a life as remarkable as his flying, Brown faced imprisonment in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, and after the Allied victory his fluent German saw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405930330
• ISBN13: 9781405930338
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 400 Pages