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Category Archives: WWII
Author Interview | Sarah Blake
It is my pleasure to welcome author Sarah Blake for an interview today. Her bestselling book The Postmistress tells the story of two women—one, a reporter covering the blitz in London, another an American postmistress who manages the mail in a small town in Massachusetts—whose lives cross paths in the days leading up to World War II. The Postmistress was… Continue reading...
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Harrowing Historicals: Keeping the Spirits Alive | A Guest Post by Sarah Jane Stratford
The city of York, England, doesn’t need Halloween to spook you. It is one of the most haunted cities in Europe, with over 140 separate ghosts sighted over the years. The richness of the city’s history, both normal and para, made it an obvious home for my sophisticated, ancient vampires (until they moved to London at the dawn of the Renaissance). It’s a city I know well, having done a… Continue reading...
Posted in England, Guest Post, Harrowing Historicals, Historical Fantasy, WWII
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The Real James Bond Was A Woman. Seriously. | A Guest Post by M.L. Malcolm, PLUS Giveaway
I love James Bond. I’d always imagined that Ian Fleming based some of his famous spy’s derring-do on his own wartime exploits, so I was terribly disappointed to learn that during World War II Fleming was actually a spy supervisor. As personal assistant to the British Director of Naval Intelligence, he saw combat only once, and I mean that quite literally; he and his boss watched from afar… Continue reading...
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Author Event | Lauren Belfer
A little while ago I attended a reading of A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer. The novel takes place in the United States and opens just after Pearl Harbor has occurred. The story explores how penicillin and other antibiotics were developed and how they changed peoples’ lives. Prior to antibiotics, people died of the… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, America, Author Events, Lauren Belfer, Science, WWII
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Coco Chanel & WWII: An Unfashionable Ensemble
She may have created the Little Black Dress, but Coco Chanel also had a decidedly black past. Many critics have expressed outrage over the fact that in the recent flurry of films released about the life of Coco Chanel (Coco Before Chanel, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, and the television movie Coco Chanel), not one of them makes mention of… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, Coco Chanel, Fashion, France, Society Scandals, Winston Churchill, WWII
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Review | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date: July 28th, 2008
Source: My bookshelf – I received this book as a gift.
To both my delight and dismay, this book was a very quick… Continue reading...
Posted in 20th Century, Book Reviews, England, WWII
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Currently Reading…The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie BarrowsSynopsis: “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
“January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find… Continue reading...
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