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In Full Flight: Story of Africa and Atonement

The remarkable story of one woman`s search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II–a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, the French-born Spoerry learned how to fly a plane at the age of forty-five and earned herself the cherished nickname, โ€Mama Daktariโ€–โ€Mother Doctorโ€–from the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa. Now, in the first comprehensive account of her life, Dr. Spoerry`s revered selflessness gives way to a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname–this one sinister–working as a โ€doctorโ€ in a Nazi concentration camp.In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one`s troubled past simply by doing good in the present. Informed by Spoerry`s own journals, a trove of previously untapped files, and numerous interviews with those who knew her in Europe or Africa, John Heminway takes readers on a remarkable journey across a haunting African landscape and into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.

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