The Female Few

the long version

"The fascinating accounts of the female pilots who transported the aircraft flown during the Battle of Britain, based on previously unpublished interviews with four pilots. Through the darkest days of World War II, 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. 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 and without radios. Fifteen would lose their lives. Here, four 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 years later, and their accounts reveal a forgotten chapter in the history of World War II..."--Publisher description.