The women who flew for Hitler : a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; maps, photographs (some color) ; 25 cm
Status
PCPLS - South Haven Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.544943 MULLE
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940.544943 MULLE
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Aeronautical engineers -- Germany -- Biography.
Air pilots, Military -- Germany -- Biography.
Iron Cross -- Biography.
Reitsch, Hanna.
Stauffenberg, Melitta, -- Gräfin, -- 1903-1945.
Women air pilots -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany.
Air pilots, Military -- Germany -- Biography.
Iron Cross -- Biography.
Reitsch, Hanna.
Stauffenberg, Melitta, -- Gräfin, -- 1903-1945.
Women air pilots -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany.
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliogrpahical references (pages 375-453) and index.
Description
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.,Pubisher's marketing.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mulley, C. (2017). The women who flew for Hitler: a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry (First U.S. edition.). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mulley, Clare. 2017. The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mulley, Clare. The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry St. Martin's Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mulley, Clare. The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry First U.S. edition., St. Martin's Press, 2017.
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