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|title=Black Dove, White Raven

|author=Elizabeth Wein

|publisher=Electric Monkey

|date=February 2015

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|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?

You won't need quite as many boxes of tissues for this wonderful book as you might for [Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein|Code Name Verity] and [Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein|Rose Under Fire], both by the same author. Nonetheless, all three are equally powerful and deserve – no, ''demand'' - to be read.

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