War Widows of WW2

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After the Second World War, societies across the world struggled under a mass of social and political change. This disjointed period serves as the backdrop for Tara Moss’ new novel, in which her protagonist, female war reporter turned private inquiry agent pushes against the workforce prejudices of 1946 Australia. Through this lens, Tara explores post-war attitudes towards gender, race, disability and religion. Tara takes us straight into her family history with the story of her Oma and Opa’s survival in the Nazi occupied Netherlands. She then shares the stories of the incredible photographers, investigators and nurses who were the inspiration behind her main character. Tara Moss is the author of 13 bestselling books, a documentary maker, presenter, journalist and advocate for human rights and the rights of women, children and people with disabilities. She has been an ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 2007. War Widow can be found here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636233/the-war-widow-by-tara-moss/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit World Wars podcast I'm your host James Rogers and we have got a treat for you in this episode
0:06.5	We have the international best-selling author Tara Moss
0:11.6	Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, she is the author of 13 different best-selling books,
0:18.2	published in 19 different countries in 13 languages, and her new book is The War Widow. Now this is a novel. This is also novel for the
0:27.6	World Wars. We haven't done historical fiction before, but Tara's book really takes us on a journey through some of the most neglected
0:35.6	parts of the Second World War history. We talk about the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940, about the life of her grandparents and how it really inspired
0:46.4	her work and some of the most amazing female figures of the Second World War who inspire the character at the heart of her book which is a really cool take on a 1940s detective thriller.
1:00.0	The character is Billy Walker and she's based on so many bad-ass second world war spies
1:06.0	on second world war female police officers on second world war nurses on everything all
1:10.9	combined together and it is an amazing book.
1:15.0	So I don't really need to say anymore.
1:17.0	Here is Taramos with The War Widow. way down. Hi Tarrut, thank you so much for coming on the World Wars. How you doing?
1:38.0	I'm well, thank you, James. This is a real pleasure.
1:41.0	Well, it's a pleasure for us to have you on the podcast and I'm especially excited to
1:46.0	talk about your new book a novel which is a first for us the war widow set in the
1:51.2	1940s but before we delve into that, tell us a little about
1:55.7	yourself. How did you get into writing about this period of history? Have you
2:00.6	always been a bit of a 1940s buff? Do you have a soft spot for this history?
2:05.9	That is precisely the case. I'm really someone who grew up on stories from World War II and I've always been drawn to this era
2:14.4	whether it's the film noir of the period, the classic hard-boiled of the period,
2:19.7	or just the personal stories and documentation from the time.
2:24.6	It was a time of so much upheaval and social change, political change.
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