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The Hurricane Girls
- Author
- Jo Wheeler
- Narrator
- Claire Rushbrook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 July 2018
- Run Time
- 8 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Hurricane Girls by Jo Wheeler, read by Claire Rushbrook.
While their husbands, brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers, sisters and friends kept the home fires burning, for the first time, a group of remarkable women took to the skies. They weren't allowed into combat but risked their lives in bad weather and without radios to bring our boys the aircraft they so vitally needed.
Employed by the Air Transport Auxiliary, these women were known as 'attagirls'. They proved that women too could master Spitfires, Mosquitoes and Hawker Hurricanes, forging a new path in aviation.
The Hurricane Girls is the fascinating, moving and inspirational story of bravery, determination and remarkable women.
Critics Review
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Meet the women who kept the RAF flying during World War ll . . . Nearly 80 years after the war started, the battle over equal work continues and prejudice still hold many girls back from taking up jobs considered to be men's work. But opinions are changing and the women of the ATA remain an inspiration
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Details
- Author
- Jo Wheeler
- Narrator
- Claire Rushbrook
- Duration
- 8 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 July 2018
- ISBN
- 9781405939188
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs, Biography: historical, political and military, Air forces and warfare, Gender studies: women and girls, Second World War
Synopsis
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Hurricane Girls by Jo Wheeler, read by Claire Rushbrook. While their husbands, brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers, sisters and friends kept the home fires burning, for the first time, a group of remarkable women took to the skies. They weren't allowed into combat but risked their lives in bad weather and without radios to bring our boys the aircraft they so vitally needed.Employed by the Air Transport Auxiliary, these women were known as 'attagirls'. They proved that women too could master Spitfires, Mosquitoes and Hawker Hurricanes, forging a new path in aviation.The Hurricane Girls is the fascinating, moving and inspirational story of bravery, determination and remarkable women.
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