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by Eileen Frost

And Consider This

Vantage Points: A Novel of Men and Women in World War II

by Ken Libbey

(Writers Club Press, an imprint of iUniverse.com)

Louise Mitchell has been flying planes since she was ten years old. She is pulled from her job at a small Iowa airfield by the opportunity to serve her country during World War II as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot. This little known group of women served heroically, transporting newly built aircraft to training fields and points of departure for combat areas.

In this first novel, Ken Libbey has crafted a compelling love story in which a member of Roosevelt's personal staff falls for Louise, after too many separations from the beautiful foreign correspondent who seemed his soul-mate. Set against the exigencies of war, this novel brings alive a group of women whose competence and nerve did not require women's liberation to be freed, just good old-fashioned opportunity.

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Daughter of an army surgeon, Eileen Frost grew up in libraries on military bases from coast to coast and beyond. A Senate staff member for five years after college, she spent many rewarding hours in the Library of Congress. She then spent a year in Europe, and after an interlude enjoying her small children, Eileen ran a catering business, became a librarian, and has worked at an independent school in North Carolina since 1984. Ms. Frost has two daughters, both avid readers. For questions, comments and suggestions, email Eileen Frost.