A tossed salad of stuff

Finding a title for blog posts is the hardest bit!  I can’t find a unifying theme for this, so I’ll just toss them all together in one bowl:

Hidden Conflict gets a great review from Rainbow Reviews

Overall this is a great anthology that highlights historical men in the military in realistic and moving ways. Since the collection of stories is so dark and intense, I’d suggest reading them individually rather than the entire anthology at once. Their depth and emotion will not overwhelm then. Either way, this well written collection will appeal to literature fans easily.

We (the authors of the anthology) have been discussing that “dark and intense” ever since we read the review this morning, and it lead onto some reminiscences which reminded me of this article, which always makes me laugh:

Not Depressed, Just British!

And on an even more positive note, the I Do anthology (the first one) is a Dark Diva reviewer’s top pick this month, and is up for “book of the month”.  I’d hesitate to hustle for my own books, but getting people to buy this one = more money for the campaign for equal marriage.  So if you fancy going over to the review

I Do: An anthology in support of marriage equality

and voting for it as book of the month, that would be fabulous

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How much women’s history has been accidentally ‘lost’?

I remember growing up with the message that women never fought in wars.  I was taught that!  And the more I learn about history, the more I realise it was an utter flat out lie.

Amazing story of Soviet Russia’s three regiments of women fighter pilots, dive bombers and night bombers, the “Night Witches”…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8329676.stm

who flew more than 3,000 missions along the ‘eastern front’ in WW2 and were not provided with parachutes – so if they were shot down, they all died.

Thanks to catdancerz for the link

Even Britain had its “Spitfire Women” of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying the planes that took vital supplies between Britain’s airfields.  They may have been non-combatant, but they died just the same.  So why was I never taught about any of this?  Why was I specifically taught that heroism was only for the boys?  (That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.  I know why.)

I boggle, again.

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