The Women Who Flew for Hitler
The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries
$39.02
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2018
Summary
Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different, and neither woman had a good word to say for the other.
Hanna was middle-class, vivacious, and distinctly Aryan, while the dar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447274230 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447274237 |
| Author: | Clare Mulley |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Vividly drawn … this is a thrilling story.
Vividly drawn … this is a thrilling story. * Telegraph *
This is popular history of a high order. * Times *
A satisfying, rollicking read … well researched and beautifully written. * Spectator *
This compelling work has the drama and suspense of the best movie scripts. * Library Journal USA *
Biographer Mulley comes through in a major way … absolutely gripping. * Booklist, USA *
An utterly compelling read * Historia *
Packed with detail and colour. * History Revealed *
Clare Mulley
Clare Mulley is the award-winning author of two books, The Spy Who Loved: the secrets and lives of one of Britain’s bravest wartime heroines, which has been optioned for film and The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, which won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize. She has also contributed to The Arvon Book of Life-Writing and reviews for The Spectator and History Today. She lives in Saffron Walden, with her husband, three daughters, and lurcher.
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