![]() ![]() They free the city elated and feeling invincible, they depart for their base in England. Her first assignment is a short secret mission to Paris, where she earns the fast admiration of her fellow male pilots. ![]() She also learns an aerial tactic called “taran,” in which a pilot knocks a bomb away from its target. She recalls “flying bombs,” also known as doodlebugs and buzz bombs, utilized by the Germans. She decides to keep a journal documenting her experiences in the war. The novel begins as Justice, a naive but well-meaning young girl, attempts to join the Allied forces stationed in England to fly bomber planes in the war effort. The highly resilient women she meets form a strong community, sharing stories and working together to survive the harsh conditions of the camp. There, Justice meets countless characters with riveting stories, including a French novelist whose Jewish husband and three sons had been killed, a young girl who was the guinea pig-like subject of Nazi medical experiments, and a Nachthexen, or “Night Witch” - a prodigious female Soviet fighter pilot for the air force. Captured by the Nazi Regime during a secret flight near the end of the war, Justice is taken to Ravensbrück, the most notorious of the Nazi concentration camps for women. ![]() Rose Under Fire (2013), a historical novel written by Elizabeth Wein, follows the protagonist Rose Justice, a young pilot working for the Air Transport Auxiliary throughout World War II. ![]()
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