Deb Stratas - Author
@debstratasauthor.bsky.social
Authentic storyteller of WWII historical fiction. Latest release: The Unquiet Translator. And, The War Twins of London, A Burning London Sky, The Code Girl from London, and Christmas with the Kingston Girls with ReadMore Press. debstratas.com
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
Underground Railway Women, 1942. Miss Hannah Casson operates the ticket machine in her booth at a London Underground station. Passengers queue up for their turn behind the glass. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Underground Railway Women, 1942. Miss Hannah Casson operates the ticket machine in her booth at a London Underground station. Passengers queue up for their turn behind the glass. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
🎄 Come see me at the Durham Region Holiday Pop-Up Marketplace next Sunday, Nov. 16th. Get your Christmas gifts-books!
🕚 11 AM – 6 PM
📍 Ajax Community Centre – 75 Centennial Rd, Ajax, ON
#DurhamHolidayMarket #ShopLocal #FamilyPhotos #AjaxEvents #HolidayPopUp #DRHPM2025
🕚 11 AM – 6 PM
📍 Ajax Community Centre – 75 Centennial Rd, Ajax, ON
#DurhamHolidayMarket #ShopLocal #FamilyPhotos #AjaxEvents #HolidayPopUp #DRHPM2025
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🎄 Come see me at the Durham Region Holiday Pop-Up Marketplace next Sunday, Nov. 16th. Get your Christmas gifts-books!
🕚 11 AM – 6 PM
📍 Ajax Community Centre – 75 Centennial Rd, Ajax, ON
#DurhamHolidayMarket #ShopLocal #FamilyPhotos #AjaxEvents #HolidayPopUp #DRHPM2025
🕚 11 AM – 6 PM
📍 Ajax Community Centre – 75 Centennial Rd, Ajax, ON
#DurhamHolidayMarket #ShopLocal #FamilyPhotos #AjaxEvents #HolidayPopUp #DRHPM2025
My Nov 2025 newsletter is here with the announcement of a ***FREE*** Kingston Sisters prequel novelette. Sign up for my newsletter to get your copy! debstratas.com #ww2 #ww2historicalfiction #KingstonSisters
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My Nov 2025 newsletter is here with the announcement of a ***FREE*** Kingston Sisters prequel novelette. Sign up for my newsletter to get your copy! debstratas.com #ww2 #ww2historicalfiction #KingstonSisters
War worker Mrs. Wilkinson breaks down fuses at ROF Aycliffe (munitions factory), near Darlington, County Durham, England. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
War worker Mrs. Wilkinson breaks down fuses at ROF Aycliffe (munitions factory), near Darlington, County Durham, England. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Members of the Womens' Voluntary Service (WVS) are preparing the canteen before leaving the depot to supply refreshments to shelterers emerging for work after a night in the shelter, London, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Members of the Womens' Voluntary Service (WVS) are preparing the canteen before leaving the depot to supply refreshments to shelterers emerging for work after a night in the shelter, London, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Two women carpenters fix door hinges at a workshop producing huts for the army, somewhere in England, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Two women carpenters fix door hinges at a workshop producing huts for the army, somewhere in England, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
My October 2025 newsletter is here, including an exciting prequel announcement and upcoming holiday book events. Have a read and hope to see you at an event in November! shorturl.at/4QF0I #booknews #holidayshopping #TheUnquietTranslator #WW2 books
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My October 2025 newsletter is here, including an exciting prequel announcement and upcoming holiday book events. Have a read and hope to see you at an event in November! shorturl.at/4QF0I #booknews #holidayshopping #TheUnquietTranslator #WW2 books
Check out the trailer for my newest book: The Unquiet Translator — Book 1 in my Bletchley Park Chronicles. With almost 100 4.4-star Amazon reviews in just 2 months! V.https://shorturl.at/T7z4C #HistoricalFiction #WWII #BletchleyPark #TheUnquietTranslator
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Check out the trailer for my newest book: The Unquiet Translator — Book 1 in my Bletchley Park Chronicles. With almost 100 4.4-star Amazon reviews in just 2 months! V.https://shorturl.at/T7z4C #HistoricalFiction #WWII #BletchleyPark #TheUnquietTranslator
Women working in a British dockyard, July 1941. One of the many jobs taken up by women as the men went off to fight. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Women working in a British dockyard, July 1941. One of the many jobs taken up by women as the men went off to fight. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Two Wrens (Women’s Royal Navy) drivers who carried navy personnel on urgent work between bases in WW2. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Two Wrens (Women’s Royal Navy) drivers who carried navy personnel on urgent work between bases in WW2. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
The milking team at a Norfolk dairy farm (two men and two women) smile for the camera in the sunshine, with their pails and milking stools at the ready during the war. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The milking team at a Norfolk dairy farm (two men and two women) smile for the camera in the sunshine, with their pails and milking stools at the ready during the war. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
A member of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) with two shire horses harrowing a field in Surrey, 1941. Farming was vital for supplying the country with food, and by 1944, there were 80,000 members of the WLA. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A member of the Women’s Land Army (WLA) with two shire horses harrowing a field in Surrey, 1941. Farming was vital for supplying the country with food, and by 1944, there were 80,000 members of the WLA. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
My September 2025 Newsletter is here, featuring an interview with fellow author Vince Santoro talking about his new book, Letters of Redemption. Have a read! shorturl.at/aGW8y #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
September 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My September 2025 Newsletter is here, featuring an interview with fellow author Vince Santoro talking about his new book, Letters of Redemption. Have a read! shorturl.at/aGW8y #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Mrs. A B Skinner of Totterdown, Bristol, works part-time as a milk roundswoman during the war. Here she can be seen leaving two pints of milk on a doorstep. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
September 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Mrs. A B Skinner of Totterdown, Bristol, works part-time as a milk roundswoman during the war. Here she can be seen leaving two pints of milk on a doorstep. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Underground officials were ordered to lock station entrances during raids but by the second week of heavy bombing, the government relented and ordered the stations to be opened. A mom looking worried with her two children in the tube. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Underground officials were ordered to lock station entrances during raids but by the second week of heavy bombing, the government relented and ordered the stations to be opened. A mom looking worried with her two children in the tube. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
A British soldier on a captured horse stopping to have a word with one of the mothers and her baby from a maternity home at Benouville, 27 July 1944. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
September 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A British soldier on a captured horse stopping to have a word with one of the mothers and her baby from a maternity home at Benouville, 27 July 1944. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Florence Kelly, a female warden carrying Suzanne Oliphant, a little girl, after she had been rescued by a fireman from a house on which a V1 flying bomb had destroyed a block of flats at Buckingham Gate in London, 23 June 1944. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
August 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Florence Kelly, a female warden carrying Suzanne Oliphant, a little girl, after she had been rescued by a fireman from a house on which a V1 flying bomb had destroyed a block of flats at Buckingham Gate in London, 23 June 1944. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Mrs. Dart, a childminder in Bristol, entertains six children in Bristol with a storybook while their mothers work, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
August 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Mrs. Dart, a childminder in Bristol, entertains six children in Bristol with a storybook while their mothers work, 1941. IWM #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
Author Lift: The Girl from the Channel Islands/Jenny Lecoat. Based on true events, this gripping novel follows Heda, a young Austrian woman trapped on the Channel Islands during WW2 - the only British territory occupied by the Nazis. shorturl.at/C2GQ4 @jennyLecoat #WW2Books #BritishHistory
August 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Author Lift: The Girl from the Channel Islands/Jenny Lecoat. Based on true events, this gripping novel follows Heda, a young Austrian woman trapped on the Channel Islands during WW2 - the only British territory occupied by the Nazis. shorturl.at/C2GQ4 @jennyLecoat #WW2Books #BritishHistory
Two women, responding to the 'Holidays at Home' campaign, writing postcards in Hyde Park, London. Courtesy IWM. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
August 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Two women, responding to the 'Holidays at Home' campaign, writing postcards in Hyde Park, London. Courtesy IWM. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
This woman is checking on tube timetables alongside a couple of signalmen during the war. Another job previously held by a man to free up more men for service#WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
July 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This woman is checking on tube timetables alongside a couple of signalmen during the war. Another job previously held by a man to free up more men for service#WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women
The Unquiet Translator is here! Violet flees her guilt to Bletchley Park, translating secrets in silence. But danger, betrayal & grief follow her. A story of resilience, forgiveness & finding your voice when every word matters.#WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women #BletchleyPark rb.gy/s0nlrj
July 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Unquiet Translator is here! Violet flees her guilt to Bletchley Park, translating secrets in silence. But danger, betrayal & grief follow her. A story of resilience, forgiveness & finding your voice when every word matters.#WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women #BletchleyPark rb.gy/s0nlrj
BIG NEWS! My new book, The Unquiet Translator, will be available for pre-order in just 2 days - July 18th! This is the first book in my new series about the brave women at Bletchley Park during World War II. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women #BletchleyPark
July 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BIG NEWS! My new book, The Unquiet Translator, will be available for pre-order in just 2 days - July 18th! This is the first book in my new series about the brave women at Bletchley Park during World War II. #WW2Books #BritishHistory #WW2Women #BletchleyPark