Merlin in Perspective: The Combat Years (Historical Series)

This book attempts to look overall at the wartime Merlin, to examine the pressures on its development and the task set manufacturing and support facilities, but above all at its role as the major combat engine in the one big air force which saw the War through from September 1939 until August 1945. Its history and achievements were crowded into a short span of years, which is remarkable because no other engine type has approached the production run in numbers or operational scope.