Spitfire Women of World War II - 8 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, 3 - 5 working days.
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II -- mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of 1941? What made a South African diamond heiress give up her life of house parties and London balls to spend the war in a freezing barracks on the Solent? And why did young Margaret Frost start lying to her father during the Battle of Britain? They -- and scores of other women -- weren't allowed to fly in combat, but what they did was nearly as dangerous. Unarmed and without instruments or radios, they delivered planes for the Air Transport Auxiliary to the RAF bases from which male pilots flew into battle. At the mercy of the weather and any long-range enemy aircraft that pounced on them, dozens of these women died, among them Amy Johnson, Britain's most famous flyer. But the survivors shared four unrepeatable years of life, adrenaline and love. The story of this 'tough bunch of babes' (in the words of one of them) has never been told properly before.The author has interviewed all the surviving women pilots, who came not just from the shires of England, but also from the U.S.A, Chile, Australia, Poland and Argentina. Paid GBP 6.00 a week, they flew -- in skirts -- up to 16 hours a day in 140 different types of aircraft, though most of them liked spitfires best.

Lieferung aus: Deutschland, 3.
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest aeroplanes in World War II, mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Scores of women who weren't allowed to fly in combat nevertheless risked their lives to deliver planes for the Air Transport Auxiliary to the RAF bases from which male pilots flew into battle. A fitting complement to Patrick Bishop's Fighter Boys. 'The breadth of Whittell's research leaps off the page' Scotsman.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Despatched same working day before 3pm.
This is the incredible true story of a wartime sisterhood of women pilots: a group of courageous pioneers who took exceptional risks to fly Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancasters to the frontlines of World War II.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, plus shipping.
Paperback / softback by Giles Whittell.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Usually ships in 1-2 business days.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, MONSTER BOOKSHOP U.S.A.
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