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Airlife UK 1st edition 1998. Hard cover dust wrapper 160pp b&w plates. A little wear on edges else very good-very good+. The story of the first Luftwaffe air raid on mainland Britain during WWII: the raid led by Hauptmann Helmut Pohle with the target of HMS Hood and other capital ships of the Royal Navy in the Firth of Forth at Rosyth. This was the day that the Spitfire was first used in combat, wth Patsy Gifford of 603 Squadron making the first kills by a British pilot in defence of the British Isles.