Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White #literature perspective

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With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he is Palestinian by birth)

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Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White #literature perspectiveBuilt of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn't think it wanted then couldn't do without. Flying on operations barely eighteen months after a single prototype was ordered off the drawing board, it was the answer to its pilots' prayers: a