The Women Who Flew for Hitler

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots – Hitler's personal Valkyries.

Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross...