Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

Built 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 …

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