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Feb 13, 2018 · “In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement” is a fascinating biography of Dr. Anne Spoerry, a French-Swiss physician and member of the French Resistance imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp during WWII.
Feb 13, 2018 · 3.98. 493 ratings92 reviews. 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.
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Feb 13, 2018 · As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from...
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—Christopher Buckley " In Full Flight proves once again that true stories are the best. No novelist could invent a more intriguing, haunted heroine than Dr. Anne Spoerry—or a life that would take her from disgrace in a Nazi concentration camp to redemption on the wild plains of Africa.
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Feb 13, 2018 · In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone. Preview this book ».
—Christopher Buckley " In Full Flight proves once again that true stories are the best. No novelist could invent a more intriguing, haunted heroine than Dr. Anne Spoerry—or a life that would take her from disgrace in a Nazi concentration camp to redemption on the wild plains of Africa.
- John Hylan Heminway
