Montagu Curzon

A dream to fly

Undeniably the Hawker Hurricane has suffered the fate of the less pretty sister.

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  • Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain

    Leo McKinstry

    John Murray, pp. 355

  • Hurricane: The Last Witnesses

    Brian Milton

    Deutsch, pp. 253

  • Bomber Flight Berlin

    Mike Rossiter

    Bantam, pp. 289

Undeniably the Hawker Hurricane has suffered the fate of the less pretty sister. It is the Spitfire, at once beautiful and deadly, that is forever the star of 1940, firmly lodged in the British military pantheon, beside the longbow and HMS Victory, and the Hurricane is in the shadow. Yet it did more of the work, in greater numbers, and with more victories in the Battles of France and Britain.

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