Becky Aikman

Spitfires

The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

The heart-pounding true story of the daring American women who piloted the most dangerous aircraft of World War II through the treacherous skies of Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781635576566
• ISBN-10: 1635576563
• Artikelnr.: 71822298

Autorenporträt

Becky Aikman is the author of two books of narrative nonfiction: her memoir, Saturday Night Widows, and Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge. A former journalist at Newsday, Aikman has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She lives in New York.

Rezensionen

Timely. This lively and entertaining book by journalist and author Becky Aikman tells the story of the 'Atta-Girls,' a collection of American women who, after being rejected by the U.S. military because of their gender, crossed the Atlantic to aid British forces by ferrying fighter planes, bombers and other aircraft to the male pilots in front-line squadrons. Those fearlessly determined female pilots are the professional forebears of the women who would slowly break down barriers in the U.S. military in the decades that followed . . . And what forebears those women were.