Book description
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. In The Female Few, three of these astonishingly brave women
tell their stories for the first time, awe inspiring tales of
incredible risk, tenacity and sacrifice. Their spirit and fearlessness
in the face of death still resonates down the years, and their
accounts reveal a forgotten chapter in the history of the Second World War.
Jacky Hyams is a journalist and writer. She is the author of
Bombsites & Lollipops: My 50s East End Childhood, The Real Downton
Abbey, Rapid Response: Tales of Life as a Paramedic and Time to Help
Your Parents. She has written for many newspapers and magazines,
including the Sydney Morning Herald, London Evening Standard, The
Times and Rolling Stone.
