Raised in Fort Worth, she served in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in World War Two, worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and a copywriter for Neiman-Marcus, took up fencing and became a regional champion. In the late 1940s, she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she b...
The decade of the thirties was a hard one for China; indeed, the last Japanese would not be routed from Chinese soil until the end of World War II in 1945.正如希特勒统治下的德国在5年后所做的那样,从1931年开始,日本凭借其高度发达的军事机器和优等民族心态,着手建立起对邻邦的统治。中国东北...
During World War II, members of the US Army Nurse Corps took care of the sick and wounded throughout the world, often in dangerous and difficult conditions. These brave women inspired four of my novels (A Memory Between Usand theWings of the Nightingale series), so I’m sharing a four-...
A high elven ranger fighting a forest troll berserker.For nearly four thousand years, the high elves remained relatively at peace. But while the elves established their nation, the Amani plotted their next assault. 2,800 years before the First War, the Troll Wars began. With aid from the ...
a presenter. I really enjoyed ‘Britain’s Great War’, and I felt that it covered many aspects of the First World War that have been previously ignored. We all know about the Somme and Gallipoli, for example, yet how many people knew that Britain was bombed during the First World War?
◇The Secret Service is known today for protecting public officials and their families. However,when it began in 1865,it was started to protect money.A third to a half of all US money during the Civil War was fake (假的).President Abraham Lincoln created the United States Secret Service to...
Tags Anna Floyd, England, novel, women writers, World War One Madam, by Ethel Sidgwick (1921) 2 November 2022 This is a guest post by Dr. Sarah Lonsdale. As a long-time student of early twentieth century novels, I must confess to at first being utterly confounded when I started reading...
In one of the Warcraft novels, it's stated that "it will take another century or two for the World Tree to regain its former glory and power." Note that Nordrassil is referred to as the World Tree, with capitals, likely because it was the original World Tree and because the Well of...
I still wonder at the absence of serious peace protestors. Why, one might even hazard a supposition that the Biden administration really and truly wants a nuclear war, as an excuse to crush any of this insurrection talk. Wartime measures, for the good of the nation – that’s always been...
Until he meets Danica Waterhouse. The sparks are instant, their attraction irresistible. For him, she’s the one. To her, he’s a firebomb thrown in the middle of a family war. Can a modern witch find love with an old-fashioned mundane who refuses to settle for anything less than for...