tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post2373190249411870282..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: History is annoying - Eve EdwardsMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-2550381349666591392013-03-03T15:04:18.741+00:002013-03-03T15:04:18.741+00:00Super post! And I haven't any stories like tha...Super post! And I haven't any stories like that of the pilot which is AMAZING!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-69381716820628093042013-03-03T11:46:18.965+00:002013-03-03T11:46:18.965+00:00Great post Eve! I love the pilot story. If anyone ...Great post Eve! I love the pilot story. If anyone wants to read Graham Donald's own account it is here:<br />http://tinyurl.com/atp6shkMark Burgesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17271587070391155947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-34904307672796914032013-03-03T11:11:53.880+00:002013-03-03T11:11:53.880+00:00What I really want is a time machine so I can go b...What I really want is a time machine so I can go back and look! I'm writing about real incidents and real people in the seventeenth century as well as invented ones, and the key historic event in my current story is something that historians have recently redated when new evidence turned up.<br /> <br />This means the time-scale of other events needs reviewing too, plus every time I consult a book I have to remember to check if it was published after the new dating took place and whether or not the writer took the new information into account.<br /><br />Much better just to crank up the Tardis and see what happened and who was doing what when...Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16288917377032021803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-3033651396024846912013-03-03T10:20:31.649+00:002013-03-03T10:20:31.649+00:00That's amazing, Eve! I don't think I'...That's amazing, Eve! I don't think I've come across anything like that in mt own researches - something true but too crazy to be believed - but I suppose a WW2 instance would be Douglas Bader. A pilot who loses both legs, yet returns to active service, fights in the Battle of Britain, bails out over occupied France, is captured, escapes, ends up in Colditz ... <br /><br />You couldn't invent him.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-20268055796893503532013-03-03T09:46:47.140+00:002013-03-03T09:46:47.140+00:00Thank goodness for blogs - you're right that i...Thank goodness for blogs - you're right that it might be a leap too far in a book, but that pilot story is too heart-stopping not to share!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-24264360065823509962013-03-03T08:54:57.339+00:002013-03-03T08:54:57.339+00:00Amazing story about the pilot, Eve. The kind of th...Amazing story about the pilot, Eve. The kind of thing if you introduced in your narrative your editor might declare it 'not a credible storyline' I had an uncle who was in charge of 'war dogs' and guarded German POWs in WWII. He said some were so young and hungry that the British soldiers gave them their food rations. Theresa Breslinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02240135723649161949noreply@blogger.com