Osprey Military Aircraft : Hurricane : A Fighter Legend

A highly visual celebration of the Hawker Hurricane, the RAF's first monoplane fighter, which features photographs of surviving models both on the ground and in the air, with good accompanying text by Tony Holmes. If you're looking for a book about the Hawker Hurricane and you like colour photographs this 144 page photobook is definitely the book you are looking for. John Dibbs, Jeremy Flack, Richard Winslade, Mike Vines and Michael O'Leary provide a marvellous number and the quality of colour photographs of the few surviving Hurricanes. This book gives an excellent overview of almost all of the surviving Hurricanes. The historic black and white photographs are all of the best quality and together they give you a thorough look both around and in the airplane itself. It gives a good background to the making of arguably the best fighter aircraft of the day. Hurricane also goes in depth about the special features involved in this plane, as well as some of the highs and lows of fighting in these sleek machines, often with thrilling battles against ME109s, the Hawker Hurricane's nemesis.