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

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

Title remainder

a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry

Statement of responsibility

Clare Mulley

Creator

• Mulley, Clare
• trueMulley, Clare

Author

• Mulley, Clare

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• trueBiographies
• trueCollective biographies
• trueCourage in women
• trueGender role
• trueGermany -- History -- 1933-1945
• trueGermany, Air Force
• HISTORY / Military / World War II
• trueHistory Writing -- Women's History
• trueHistory writing -- Europe | Germany
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II
• Iron Cross -- Biography
• trueMilitary aircraft
• trueNazi Party (Germany)
• Reitsch, Hanna
• trueReitsch, Hannah
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueStauffenberg, Melitta, Grafin, 1903-1945
• Stauffenberg, Melitta, Gräfin, 1903-1945
• Women air pilots -- Germany -- Biography
• trueWomen pilots
• trueWomen's role
• trueWorld War II
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German
• trueAeronautical engineers
• Aeronautical engineers -- Germany -- Biography
• Air pilots, Military -- Germany -- Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Genre

• trueHistory Writing
• trueHistory writing
• trueCollective biographies
• trueBiography
• trueBiographies

Language

eng

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 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 darker, more self-effacing Melitta came from an aristocratic Prussian family. Both were driven by deeply held convictions about honor and patriotism; but ultimately, while Hanna tried to save Hitler's life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous attempt to assassinate the Fuhrer. Their interwoven lives provide vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes toward women, class, and race. Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full--and as yet largely unknown--account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler's bunker. Told with brio and great narrative flair, "The Women Who Flew for Hitler" is an extraordinary true story, with all the excitement and color of the best fiction.

Writing style

• trueEngaging
• trueRichly detailed

Assigning source

Pubisher's marketing

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/49430922

Illustrations

• maps
• plates
• photographs

Index

index present

LC call number

D787

LC item number

.M833 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult