Book Names Rose Under Fire

Soviet Women Pilots in WWII

For a deeper dive into the Soviet women who flew in World War II, check out my non-fiction for teens, A Thousand Sisters. The USSR was the only Allied nation that sent women pilots into combat during World War II. They operated…

Americans in Ravensbrück

I borrowed shamelessly from my grandmother’s youth and from my own Pennsylvania heritage in creating Rose, the heroine of Rose Under Fire.  I made her a middle-class American girl on purpose: I wanted to give today’s readers a feeling for…

The Ravensbrück ‘Rabbits’

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The Ravensbrück Rabbits’ Gallery My visit to Ravensbrück, August 2012 Links to further information on Ravensbrück Americans in Ravensbrück Survivors, 1958 “While in Ravensbrück they had been sustained by the determination to let the world know what had happened. But war…