Keith Lowe

High flyers

Clare Mulley describes the courage and ingenuity of Hanna Reitsch and Melitta Schiller, Nazi Germany’s star female pilots

  • The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler’s Valkyries

    Clare Mulley

    Macmillan, pp. 496

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