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Mulley, Clare.
Subjects
Reitsch, Hanna.
Stauffenberg, Melitta, Gräfin, 1903-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Role of women.
Air pilots, Military -- Germany -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- Germany -- Biography.
Women and war -- Germany -- History.
Aeronautical engineers -- Germany -- Biography.
Iron Cross -- Biography.
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Mulley, Clare.
Reitsch, Hanna.
Stauffenberg, Melitta, Gräfin, 1903-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Role of women.
Air pilots, Military -- Germany -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- Germany -- Biography.
Women and war -- Germany -- History.
Aeronautical engineers -- Germany -- Biography.
Iron Cross -- Biography.
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The women who flew for Hitler : a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry / Clare Mulley
by
Mulley, Clare.
St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Call #:
940.544943 M958w
Subjects
Reitsch, Hanna.
Stauffenberg
,
Melitta
,
Gräfin
,
1903-1945
.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Role of women.
Air pilots, Military -- Germany -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- Germany -- Biography.
Women and war -- Germany -- History.
Aeronautical engineers -- Germany -- Biography.
Iron Cross -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781250063670 (hc.)
Edition:
First U.S. edition
Description:
xxiii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-453) and index
Contents:
Preface: Truth and lives -- Longing for freedom, 1903-1932 -- Searching for the fabulous, 1912-1933 -- Public relations, 1933-1936 -- Public appointments, 1936-1937 -- Hovering, 1938 -- Descent, 1938-1939 -- Women at war, 1939-1941 -- Defying gravity, 1942-1943 -- Under attack, 1943 -- Operation Self-Sacrifice, 1943-1944 -- Operation Valkyrie, 1944 -- In the camps, 1944 -- In the bunker, 1945 -- Final flight, 1945 -- Liberation and detention, 1945-1946 -- Reputations -- Epilogue: A time of contradictions
Summary:
"Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last person to fly into Berlin under siege in April 1945, in order to beg Hitler to let her save him. He refused and killed himself two days later. The other pilot was her antithesis, a brilliant aeronautical engineer and test-pilot
Melitta
Schenk
Grafin
von
Stauffenberg
who was part Jewish. She used her value to the Luftwaffe as a means to protect her family. When her brother-in-law, Claus
von
Stauffenberg
, planned the Valkyrie attack to assassinate the Fuehrer, she agreed to provide the transport. Both women repeatedly risked their lives to change the history of the Third Reich - one in support of and the other in opposition. Their interwoven dramas are a powerful forgotten story of conformity and resistance and the very strength of women at the heart of the Second World War"--Provided by publisher.
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