Publisher's Synopsis
They wanted to fly Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancasters, and they came to England from every continent to do so - gifted, determined and astonishingly brave, the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary are the unsung heroines of World War II. Forbidden to fly in combat, they delivered planes - unarmed, without instruments or radios - to the RAF bases from which male pilots would fly them. At the mercy of the weather and long-range enemy aircraft, 15 of those women died - among them the legendary Amy Johnson. Sixty years on, Giles Whittell has tracked down more than a dozen survivors of this wartime sisterhood and woven their stories into a riveting account of remarkable women.
