Very sorry to hear that Dame Jenni Murray, the voice of BBC Woman’s Hour for 30 years, has died.
She interviewed me twice, about my books #TheWanWhoSavedTheChildren in 2009 & #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler in 2017. First time, I was SO nervous, but it was coffee & biscuits all the way.
2) #MelittaVonStauffenberg, 1903-45, German aeronautical engineer involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. (See #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler)
To mark #InternationalWomensDay this March, Cambridge Uni, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science has invited me to speak about #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler …
#OnAKnifeEdge!
Wonderful to see this in @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly this eve!
(Lots of signed copies of #AgentZo now in-store, + 1 signed copy of #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler!)
#OTD 1944, this woman - a brilliant aeronautical engineer & test pilot - was at the heart of the 20 July bomb plot to kill Hitler, yet she is hardly known: #MelittaSchiller aka #MelittaVonStauffenberg. Her remarkable true story is told in my book #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler
A wonderful full-colour 8 page spread on #HannaReitsch & #MelittaVonStauffenberg, Nazi Germany’s only female test pilots & the subjects of my book #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler, in the current issue of #IronCross magazine.
Congratulations to @JohnMcCabe on the launch of #DietrichBonhoeffer #TheLastTenDays.
Bonhoeffer spent some of those days in the company of fellow prisoner husband of #MelittaVonStauffenberg, 1 of the only 2 female test pilots in Nazi Germany, whose story is told in my book #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler.
If you saw me on @Channel4’s #WW2 #WomenInTheFrontline tonight, here’s the book on #MelittaVonStauffenberg & #HannaReitsch: #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler
Just before I went up in a glider at the start of my research for #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler!
I’m delighted that I am starting out on a new research adventure today… having just had my next book commissioned!
(Far too early to give any clues, but I am very excited!)
This woman was at the heart of the most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler, but has been almost forgotten. Here she is having boiled eggs & tea for breakfast with her husband. #MelittaVonStauffenberg died #otd 8 April 1944.
I tell her story in #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler…
