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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 14h

My October 2025 newsletter is here, including an exciting prequel announcement and upcoming holiday book events. Have a read and hope to see you at an event in November! shorturl.at/4QF0I #booknews #holidayshopping #TheUnquietTranslator #WW2 books

Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the trailer for my newest book: The Unquiet Translator — Book 1 in my Bletchley Park Chronicles. With almost 100 4.4-star Amazon reviews in just 2 months! V.https://shorturl.at/T7z4C #HistoricalFiction #WWII #BletchleyPark #TheUnquietTranslator

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Women working in a British dockyard, July 1941. One of the many jobs taken up by women as the men went off to fight. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 12d

Two Wrens (Women’s Royal Navy) drivers who carried navy personnel on urgent work between bases in WW2. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 19d

The milking team at a Norfolk dairy farm (two men and two women) smile for the camera in the sunshine, with their pails and milking stools at the ready during the war. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 26d

A member of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) with two shire horses harrowing a field in Surrey, 1941. Farming was vital for supplying the country with food, and by 1944, there were 80,000 members of the WLA. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · 29d

My September 2025 Newsletter is here, featuring an interview with fellow author Vince Santoro talking about his new book, Letters of Redemption. Have a read! shorturl.at/aGW8y #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Sep 17

If you haven't checked out Tony Riches' blog - what are you waiting for? The Writing Desk has over 2 million visitors. Impressive! @tonyriches.bsky.social

Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · Sep 17

Celebrating Two Million visitors to 'The Writing Desk' tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/09/cele... #writing #Blogging #HistoricalFiction #WritingCommunity

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Sep 17

Congratulations Tony! This is amazing!

Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Sep 15

Mrs. A B Skinner of Totterdown, Bristol, works part-time as a milk roundswoman during the war. Here she can be seen leaving two pints of milk on a doorstep. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Underground officials were ordered to lock station entrances during raids but by the second week of heavy bombing, the government relented and ordered the stations to be opened. A mom looking worried with her two children in the tube. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Sep 1

A British soldier on a captured horse stopping to have a word with one of the mothers and her baby from a maternity home at Benouville, 27 July 1944. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Thinking about my war twins today, and missing writing about Tillie and Maggie. How brave were those WW2 women??? #ww2women #ww2historical fiction

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Aug 25

Florence Kelly, a female warden carrying Suzanne Oliphant, a little girl, after she had been rescued by a fireman from a house on which a V1 flying bomb had destroyed a block of flats at Buckingham Gate in London, 23 June 1944. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Aug 18

Mrs. Dart, a childminder in Bristol, entertains six children in Bristol with a storybook while their mothers work, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Aug 12

Author Lift: The Girl from the Channel Islands/Jenny Lecoat. Based on true events, this gripping novel follows Heda, a young Austrian woman trapped on the Channel Islands during WW2 - the only British territory occupied by the Nazis. shorturl.at/C2GQ4 @jennyLecoat #WW2Books #BritishHistory

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Aug 7

Two women, responding to the 'Holidays at Home' campaign, writing postcards in Hyde Park, London. Courtesy IWM. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 30

Have a fabulous time, K!

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 29

There's nothing like the thrill of unboxing the first order of new books! Here's my unboxing of The Unquiet Translator. Sales from the first week have been amazing, so thanks for your support! #ww2 #historicalfiction #bletchleypark #theunquiettranslator youtu.be/KED5oCWjh28 rb.gy/a4upor

Unboxing of The Unquiet Translator2025

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 26

I was recently honoured to post an entry on Tony Riches' The Writing Desk blog. You'll get some behind-the-scenes info about my newest historical fiction book - The Unquiet Translator. shorturl.at/krFtB #ww2 #historicalfiction #bletchleypark #theunquiettranslator @tonyriches.bsky.social

Special Guest Interview with Deb Stratas, Author of The Unquiet Translator (The Bletchley Park Chronicles, Book 1)

Available from  Amazon UK  and  Amazon US February 1941. Violet Grey, a gifted linguist, is shattered by a family tragedy in a London air ...

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · Jul 25

Guest Interview with Deb Stratas, Author of The Unquiet Translator (The Bletchley Park Chronicles) "After my first visit to Bletchley Park, my head was spinning with all the stories, artifacts and history." tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/07/spec... @debstratasauthor.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s a wonderful place to write and rejuvenate! @ratherbereading.bsky.social @tonyriches.bsky.social @lucyworsley.bsky.social

RatherBeReading @ratherbereading.bsky.social · Jul 24

Lucky enough to stay there last month and cannot wait to go back

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 24

It was fantastic, wasn’t it?

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Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you Tony!

Deb Stratas - Author @debstratasauthor.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks Tony for posting!

Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · Jul 23

New Book trailer: The Unquiet Translator by @debstratasauthor.bsky.social is the first in her Bletchley Park Chronicles series about brave women working at the park in WWII England. www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOR... @WW2 #HistoricalFiction #Booksky 💙📚

The Unquiet Translator Book Trailer

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