Spitfire Girls - Carol Gould
Category: Military
Narrator: Anne Dover
Tags: Military, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Oxford : Isis, 2009. Total Runtime. 19 Hours, A fictionalized saga of the 180 women who flew against all odds in World War II. The female pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary are caught up in Nazi terror, American racial tension, and the forbidden romances of wartime., Top-class pilots were crucial to the survival of Great Britain during the dark days of the Blitz, and playing a vital role in fending off the German attack were the womens section of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a close and dedicated circle of female pilots. In the midst of events that would shape history, these women risked their lives to ferry aircraft day and night from factory to the arena of war, and lasting friendships were born., Together, Edith Allam and her fellow pilots faced Nazi terror, class prejudice, and the forbidden romances of wartime yet their remarkable strength carried them through., They were discriminated against because the male hierarchy didnt believe just how good they were at flyin
