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The Women Who Flew For Hitler
The True Story of Hitler’s Valkyries By Clare Mulley Publisher: Macmillan www.panmacmillan.com ISBN: 978-1-4472-7420-9 Hardback: 470 pages RRP: £20.00
NOTWITHSTANDING THE consistently exceptional quality of all the books chosen for ‘Book of the Month’, it is true to say that it is extremely rare for any of the titles which come across the editorial desk to be real page turners and hard to put down. Clare Mulley’s truly outstanding work on Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, however, is certainly an exception to that norm. And, once read, this reviewer found himself dipping back into it time and again
Hanna and Melitta were both talented, vivacious and 60 www.britainatwar.comattractive women who shared a passionate love of flying – but that is really where all similarities between them ended. Hanna was middleclass and distinctly Aryan, whilst Melitta was darker and, dangerously, she came from a part-Jewish Prussian aristocratic family. She was also a bright and accomplished aeronautical engineer.
In this utterly engaging and absorbing biography, Britain at War contributor, Clare Mulley, weaves together the fascinatin…
