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|title=Black Dove, White Raven

|author=Elizabeth Wein

|publisher=Electric Monkey

|date=February 2015

|website=http://www.elizabethwein.com

|video=

|summary=In the 1930s, two friends learn to fly before going on tour with a daredevil flying act. Extraordinary? Not really – not, that is, until you realise they're both women, and worse still, one is white and one black. After a terrible accident the surviving woman travels with their two children to Ethiopia where they get caught up with Haile Selassie and the war with Italy.

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The essential role of aviators in the success or failure of modern war is a given, and fiction is full of the derring-do and dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstrip. But what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if not thousands, and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?