Through the darkest days of the Second World War, 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 across the country. 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, without radios. Fifteen would lose their lives.
In The Female Few, five 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 down the years, and their accounts reveal a
forgotten chapter in the history of the Second World War. As Yvonne
Macdonald, now 90 and living in Cape Cod, says: 'It was a kind of
freedom you never get any other way, it was as if you had wings sewn on
your back. A lot of people here in Cape Cod don't even know I was in
World War Two. Or what I did.' They do now.
