Description
Product ID: | 9780750995160 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Female Few |
Subtitle: | Spitfire Heroines |
Authors: | Author: Jacky Hyams |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Second World War, Second World War, Gender studies: women and girls, Air forces and warfare, Gender studies: women, Air forces & warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Fascinating accounts of the female pilots who transported the aircraft flown during the Battle of Britain Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous, gifted women risked their lives as courier pilots, flying Lancaster Bombers, Spitfires and many other aircraft in hundreds of perilous missions across the country. The role of these women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary was to deliver the planes to the male RAF pilots who would take them into battle, dangerous work which the women carried out unarmed, without radios. Fifteen would lose their lives. |
Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-01-26 |