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008			170425t20172017nyuabf b 001 0ceng
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020			_a9781250063670 _qhardcover
020			_a1250063671 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)957022562
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092			_a940.5449 _bM958
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMulley, Clare, _eauthor. _9233134
245	1	4	_aThe women who flew for Hitler : _ba true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry / _cClare Mulley.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axxiii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [435]-453) and index.
520	2		_a"Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last person to fly into Berlin-under-siege in April 1945, in order to beg Hitler to let her save him. He refused and killed himself two days later. The other pilot was her antithesis, a brilliant aeronautical engineer and test-pilot Melitta Schenk Grafin von Stauffenberg who was part Jewish. She used her value to the Luftwaffe as a means to protect her family. When her brother-in-law, Claus von Stauffenberg, planned the Valkyrie attack to assassinate the Fuehrer, she agreed to provide the transport. Both women repeatedly risked their lives to change the history of the Third Reich--one in support of and the other in opposition. Mulley shows, through dazzling film-like scenes suffused in glamour and danger, that their interwoven dramas are a powerful forgotten story of conformity and resistance and the very strength of women at the heart of the Second World War"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPreface: 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.
600	1	0	_aReitsch, Hanna. _9338215
600	1	0	_aStauffenberg, Melitta, _cGräfin, _d1903-1945. _9338216
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAerial operations, German. _924264
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xWomen _zGermany. _9236196
650		0	_aAir pilots, Military _zGermany _vBiography. _9338217
650		0	_aWomen air pilots _zGermany _vBiography. _9338218
650		0	_aAeronautical engineers _zGermany _vBiography. _9338219
650		0	_aIron Cross _vBiography. _9338220
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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