The Women Who Flew for Hitler, tells the extraordinary story of two women at the heart of Nazi Germany, whose choices put them on opposite sides of history. Hanna Reitsch was middle-class and an ardent supporter of the Hitler, while Melitta von Stauffenberg was aristocratic, scholarly and part-Jewish.Their overlapping lives provide a vivid insight into Nazi Germany, its attitude to women, class and race.
Clare Mulley is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her first book, The Woman Who Saved the Children, won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize, and The Spy Who Loved, now optioned by Universal Studios, led to Clare being decorated with Poland’s national honour, the Bene Merito. Clare has spoken at the Houses of Parliament, the Imperial War Museum, the National Army Museum and British Library. TV includes the BBC’s Rise of the Nazis, BBC D-Day 75 coverage, Newsnight and Channel 5’s Adolf & Eva, Love & War.