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Author:

Mulley, Clare, author.

Title:

The women who flew for Hitler : a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry / Clare Mulley.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxiii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Reitsch, Hanna.
Stauffenberg, Melitta,--Gräfin,--1903-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, German.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Germany.
Air pilots, Military--Germany--Biography.
Women air pilots--Germany--Biography.
Aeronautical engineers--Germany--Biography.
Iron Cross--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1250063671
9781250063670

OCLC:

(OCoLC)957022562

LCCN:

2017011483

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