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Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their labels in the male-dominated field of air travel in 1930s Germany. Together with the warfare, both became pioneering test pilots and were given the Iron Combination for service to the Third Reich. But they cannot have been more different, and neither girl experienced a good phrase to say for the other. Hanna was middle-class, vivacious, and distinctly Aryan while the darker, more self-effacing Melitta originated from an aristocratic Prussian family. Both were influenced by deeply performed convictions about honor and patriotism; but eventually, while Hanna tried to save Hitler's life, begging him to let her take flight him to safe practices in Apr 1945, Melitta covertly reinforced the most well-known try to assassinate the Führer. Their interwoven lives provide stunning perception into Nazi Germany and its own behaviour toward women, class, and competition. Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of the two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full - and up to now largely unknown - account of the contrasting yet strangely parallel lives against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front side, the Berlin Air Membership, and Hitler's bunker.
