2023/01/01 Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-414) and index.
Contents:
No Place for a Woman -- Dreams and Destiny -- War Comes to France -- Occupation -- Escaping the Gestapo -- The City of Light in Shadows -- Paris Broken, Paris Outraged, Paris Liberated -- In the Company of Modern Knights -- Into the Cauldron -- Sang Froid-- Trial Under Fire -- The Helicopter and How It Came to Vietnam -- The Corsican Pilot -- aEvasan -- The Woman and the Dragonfly -- The Prestige of Men -- Roi Jean -- First Flight -- The Exhilaration of War -- True Believer -- The Woman Who Came From theSky -- A Test of Will -- The Perils of Tenacity -- Operating in the Wilderness -- Ventilateur Calling -- Madamoiselle Ventilateur -- Allons-y -- On the Right Side of Luck -- No Place for the Dying -- Taking Command -- Breakdown -- Recognition -- PyrrhicVictory -- To Breathe Again -- Daenouement Dien Bien Phu -- Challenges and Disillusion -- To Fight and To Save -- Triumph of an Indomitable Spirit.
Summary:
"Helicopter Heroine is the story of Valaerie Andrae, who began her medical career in Paris under the eyes of the Gestapo, trained as a neurosurgeon, and blazed trails as a helicopter pioneer and battlefield medicine innovator during the French Indochina war. Flying through bullets and bombs to treat and evacuate the wounded, Andrae became a legend"-- Provided by publisher.
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