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Title details for The Women Who Flew for Hitler by Clare Mulley - Available

The Women Who Flew for Hitler

A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry

by Clare Mulley
Christa Lewis
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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 Führer. 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.

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    August 8, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781541429932
      • File size: 433749 KB
      • Duration: 15:03:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Christa Lewis delves into the story of Germany's pioneering women test pilots, Melitta von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. These women loved their country but were polar opposites in morality and personality. Driven by a love of flight, they were not deterred by its high risks. Flashy Hanna embraced Hitler's plan for Germany, while erudite Melitta tried to preserve her country and family from his terror. Lewis immerses the listener in her honest and dynamic portrayal of these women's lives and their brave and amazing accomplishments in the male-dominated field of aeronautics. In a serious tone she delivers the shocking and heart-wrenching details of wartime Germany. Through Lewis, Mulley's heroines will stay with listeners long after the last sentence is spoken. S.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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