![]() ![]() Yesterday, I reviewed Open Fire for The Pirate Tree, and today, Amber has come onto the blog to talk about her inspiration for the book, her research process, and what it means to write about war and revolution in our current situation. Her protagonist, Katya, enlists in the First Russian Women’s Battalion of Death commanded by Maria Bochkareva and goes from making grenades at a munitions factory to launching them at German soldiers on the Eastern Front of World War I. For the tsar and his supporters, it was the chaotic and violent end of an era, but for for revolutionaries of various stripes - communists, democrats, supporters of women’s suffrage and equality - the chaos of the present raised hopes for a better future.Īmber Lough captures that fateful year in Russia in all its complexity, confusion, and peril in her new historical novel Open Fire. Russia in 1917 was a difficult place to be, with losses on the World War I battlefield and revolution at home. We currently live in a time of great danger, but books set in the past show us that we’re not the only ones to experience danger and societal upheaval. We can travel to places that no longer exist or that were very different years ago. ![]() Armchair Traveler Through Time: An Interview with Amber LoughĪs armchair travelers during this pandemic, we visit faraway places through books - not only real places but also ones imagined, full of magic. ![]()
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