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Spitfire Girl (Hardcover)
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Spitfire Girl (Hardcover)
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Diana Mackintosh came of age to the drone of sirens alerting the
people of Malta to the arrival of relentless flights of belligerent
German and Italian menace - the bombers she first imagined as a
swarm of black flies, pests that stung and cursed her Mediterranean
homeland. The three-year onslaught never took a day off; it was
endless, but supplies were not. The hope of a shipment of high
protein became an ongoing dream. The only time Diana wasn't hungry
was when she slept. Her story of that time - and in 2020 she is one
of the very few remaining who experienced it first-hand - makes it
clear why Malta was collectively awarded the George Cross, the
highest British civilian honour for heroism. Of course, as she
argues, no one was trying to be heroic, but somehow they helped
reverse the fortunes of the Second World War in the Mediterranean
and North Africa. Now at the age of 102, Diana is also celebrated
for her children's achievements - she helped her eldest son, Sir
Cameron Mackintosh, and worked as his unpaid secretary - and for a
life in the wings of British cinema, Hollywood and theatreland.
Spitfire Girl recounts Diana's extraordinary life, more than a
century in the making.
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