风的女儿 – The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler’s Valkyries by Clare Mulley

本书是一部非常引人入胜的双人传记作品，讲述了纳粹德国两位受过高度嘉奖的女试飞员的故事。

汉娜和梅利塔战胜了舆论对女性的偏见，在20世纪30年代男性占主导地位的德国飞行领域为自己争得了一席之地。她们在战争中成长为首屈一指的试飞员，并且凭借自己对第三帝国的卓越贡献获得铁十字勋章。然而，两人的命运截然不同，她们也不能苟同对方的抉择。出身中产阶级的汉娜是雅利安人，而不爱出风头的梅利塔来自普鲁士贵族家庭，两人都怀有深深的荣誉感和爱国主义情怀。然而在最终，1945年，汉娜恳求希特勒同她一起逃出柏林，企图挽救其生命；而梅利塔却暗中支持最著名的元首刺杀计划，并为此付出了血的代价。两人交织的人生让读者有机会洞悉纳粹德国及其女性、阶级和种族的态度。著名传记作家克莱尔•穆利通过深入挖掘两位非传统女性，通过1936年奥运会、东方战线、柏林航空俱乐部和希特勒地堡等背景，描绘了她们非凡而又杰出的人生的真实故事。

Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different and neither woman had a good word to say for the other.

Hanna was middle-class, vivacious, and distinctly Aryan, while the darker, more self-effacing Melitta came from an aristocratic Prussian family. Both were driven by deeply held convictions about honor and patriotism; but ultimately, while Hanna tried to save Hitler’s life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous attempt to assassinate the Fuhrer. Their interwoven lives provide vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes toward women, class, and race.

Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full–and as yet largely unknown–account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler’s bunker. Told with brio and great narrative flair, The Women Who Flew for Hitler is an extraordinary true story, with all the excitement and color of the best fiction.

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