No More Secrets: A Small Town Love Story (Blue Moon Book 1)

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Betty Webb, a centenarian and celebrated war veteran, recalls her memories from a time when official secrets act sealed your life from your family. Structured on different aspects of the life - like the life at the billets (accommodation), the staff and in passing some assignments - the book is a detailed reconstruction of the memory. Ms.Webb is honest in stating things like she did not about the Enigma machine or how her job was mostly clerical. She even borrows from an unpublished memoir of another one of the BP women to compare notes. Brave Books describes the book as "a modern twist to the familiar Grimm's-style fairy tale, even including a big bad wolf." After the Allied victory in Europe, Betty was called to serve at the Pentagon in the USA to help in the work to decode the Japanese war messages. Before long there was victory over Japan. It was fascinating to see the differences in how the United States was impacted by the war, verses Great Britain. This book basically teaches children that if there is a trusted adult or an authority who’s telling you to keep secrets from your parents — then that is a big red flag," Raichik said in a statement.

Sometimes the book feels too much unrelatable content. I did not understand the voyage to the US or the life since war - as in the relevance and context. This renewed interest in history is often vested and hence I felt protective about Ms.Webb being called for veteran’s day and asked to give speeches. Also with so many speeches, the inconsistencies in memory are ironed out and you get a version that need not be the entire truth.Webb is also of a generation where grandstanding is anathema to them. Seriously, my conversations with World War II veterans are always an exercise in understatement. Webb is no different and I get the feeling she didn't put everything in this book, which is her right.

From a history perspective, the book will not reveal much you can't find in numerous other books on World War II. Since this is Betty's book, a greater understanding of what is going on around her is often elusive. Webb does use some outside sources to fill in gaps, but anyone looking for a salacious or surprising "tell-all" will be disappointed. I enjoyed learning about her family life in a small town in England and found it interesting how Betty learned to speak a foreign language, and went to Germany in 1937, before WWII. That experience proved beneficial for the work she would one day do at Bletchley Park and later the Pentagon. While Betty wanted to be a driver in the ATS, because of her foreign language skills she was assigned to serve at Bletchley Park. She would serve in different roles as part of the process to decode the German messages that were intercepted. Something as simple as filing was a very important role and handled circumspectly.As a journalist and literary critic for more than 20 years, Betty -- a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, where her detective Lena Jones also lives -- has interviewed U. S. presidents, Nobel prize-winners, astronauts who’ve walked on the moon, polygamy runaways, the homeless, and the hopeless. The book will be published by conservative book publisher Brave Books, known for recently publishing Kirk Cameron's controversial children's book.

In 1982, Betty moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where her Lena Jones novels are set, but her roots are in Hamilton, Alabama, where most of her extended family still lives. In 2000 she published The Webb Family of Alabama: Survivors of Change, which focused on the descendants of her half-Seneca, half-English great-great-grandfather, William Douglas Webb, who ran away to sea at the age of 16, then after 14 wild years, settled down to farm peacefully in Hamilton. Recent DNA testing, however, has revealed that her seafaring ancestor harbored a big secret: he might not have been a Webb after all, but the descendant of a New Jersey colonist family named Price. Betty is now working to unravel this real-life mystery: did William Douglas Price change his name to Webb. Was he on the run from the law? (As a mystery writer, she kinda hopes he was) Unlike government leaders or high-ranking military commanders, Betty was an ordinary young woman in Great Britain who answered the call when her Country was facing the battle against the evil forces of Nazi Germany. Like many other men and women in the allied forces, they stepped up when their Country and the world needed them most.The work done at Bletchley was very compartmentalized and workers only knew that part of the work that they did. Each person that served had taken an oath of secrecy which they took very seriously. It wasn’t until many years later that the work done in WWII was declassified and could be talked about. In No More Secrets, Betty shares writings from other authors about their experiences and work. There's nothing wrong with the book - far from it, it is a memoir of an adventurous life from WW II that can't be repudiated. But the title with Betchley park and Pentagon and a promise of code breaking - the book sets wrong expectations. The impact of my unusual family upon my life has been profound," Betty says. "That's why I thought it would be intriguing to create a detective who had no idea of where she came from or who her parents were. Creating the orphaned Lena Jones has helped me appreciate my own ancestral heritage - both the good and the bad." About the recent DNA testing results, she adds, "All this time the Webbs were keeping an even bigger secret than the Riddells -- and they didn’t even know they were! How could I not have become a mystery novelist." Raichik's account became popular after regularly posting clips of TikTok videos showing woke rants, school teacher lectures about gender ideology, and posting the latest news clips on cultural trends. On February 20th, 2021, No More Secrets Mind Body Spirit Inc., proudly opened the nation's first menstrual hub, "The SPOT Period", located in Germantown Philadelphia, PA. all through crowd funding efforts, to provide a safe space for marginalized women and girls.

Thanks to Betty Webb writing and sharing about her service in the ATS, we can have an idea of what their lives were like during those tumultuous years. Betty was 18 years old when she enlisted in the ATS. While technically, she was qualified to remain at home and care for her mother, Betty signed up to serve her Country. Can you imagine what it was like to go from living with your family at home to sharing living space with hundreds of other women from all over. Ultimately, the book is an interesting look into the life of a person who has already lived a full life and is still going strong in her 90s. I was glad that the book did not end with the victory in WWII. Betty went on to write and speak about her life during WWII. Even now, Betty at the age of 100 continues to share about her experiences serving Great Britain and with their alley the United States of America. Now retired from journalism to write full time, she also contributes the Small Press column for Mystery Scene magazine and teaches creative writing at Phoenix College. The story is about a fictional second grader named Rose the Lamb who must choose between her teacher and trusting her parents.

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Founded in 2012, No More Secrets Mind Body Spirit Inc. is a grassroots sexuality awareness and consultative organization who's focus is to reduce high risk behaviors in vulnerable populations through the development and implementation of sustainable programming and polices. C ommitted to providing a realistic and relational approach to comprehensive wellness of the mind, body and spirit, No More Secrets Mind Body Spirit Inc. intentionally dismantles the myths, stigmas and misconceptions ingrained in our communities and is designed to elicit open communication, promote honest discussions and provide real life solutions. After reading biographies and World War II history books, I was interested in reading Betty Webb’s book No More Secrets. WWII is such a pivotal and interesting time in history. A time that could have had a much different outcome if not for God’s providence and the men and women who worked tirelessly to win the war against evil. I found No More Secrets by Betty Webb an interesting history from the perspective of an ordinary citizen who was called to serve during an extraordinary time in history. It was quite a different pace and more personable than a book written by a government or miliary leader and was very relatable. The social media influencer views her new children's book as "the next step" in helping parents and children spot "predatory behavior." In the book, she reveals the "dangers of keeping secrets from your parents."