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Night witches by kathryn lasky6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() never, in any military sense, fight men.'" Ennis set out to rectify this assumption with The Night Witches - originally published in 2009 and newly reissued. the one human activity from which women, with the most insignificant exceptions, have always and everywhere stood apart. Ennis quotes Keegan's A History of Warfare: "'Warfare is. In fact, Garth Ennis was inspired to write The Night Witches by the great historian John Keegan's shocking dismissal of the very possibility that women have been fighters. ![]() If women's history sometimes needs fictional stories to flesh it out, it needs them most of all when it comes to women's role in war. Noting that information about her subject is riddled with "so many gaps, so many silences," Kelly feels free to invent "an imaginary Jane Austen." The novelist herself would have approved, Kelly contends: "It's in fiction, Jane says, that we should look for 'the most thorough knowledge of human nature.'" ![]() ![]() More specifically, I thought about Helena Kelly's 2017 book Jane Austen: The Secret Radical, which issued an audacious call to incorporate creativity and imagination into women's history. Reading the graphic novel The Night Witches, about female pilots who flew for the Russians in World War II, I thought about Jane Austen. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Night Witches Author Garth Ennis and Russ Braun ![]()
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