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Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II

Author : Jacky Hyams
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782197168
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Bomb Girls - Britain's Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II written by Jacky Hyams and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, mums and teenage girls, all 'doing their bit' for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in cast munitions factories, helping make the explosives, bullets and war machines that would ensure victory for Britain.It was dangerous, dirty and exhaustive work. They worked round the clock, often exposed to toxic, lethal chemicals. A factory accident could mean blindness, loss of limbs - or worse. Many went home with acid burns, yellow skin or discoloured hair. Others were forced to leave their loved ones and move to live with total strangers in unfamiliar surroundings. Frequently, their male bosses were coarse and unsympathetic.Yet this hidden army of nearly two million women toiled on regardless through the worst years of the war, cheerfully ignoring the dangers and the exhaustion, as bombing, rationing and the heartbreak of loss or separation took their toll on everyone in the country.Only now, all these years later, have they chosen to tell their remarkable stories. Here, in their own words, are the vivid wartime memories of the 'secret army' of female munitions workers, whose resilience and sheer grit in the face of danger has only now started to emerge.These are the intimate and personal stories of an unforgettable group of women, whose hard work and quiet courage made a significant contribution to Britain's war effort. They didn't fire the bullets, but they filled them up with explosives. And in doing so, they helped Britain win the war.

The Munitions Girls

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1784292303
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Munitions Girls written by Rosie Archer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling, eventful WW2 saga from the popular writer of the Daisy Lane novels - perfect for fans of Daisy Styles. 1943, Gosport, Hampshire. Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory. Not for the first time, her mother has run off with a dodgy-looking bloke, leaving Pixie to pay the rent and fend for herself. Pixie, along with her best friend Rita, Em, the factory overseer, and the rest of the girls are making the most of the war while trying to stay alive. The work is dangerous and the hours long, but in the evenings they take off their overalls and go to the pub or, better still, go dancing. Pixie meets American serviceman Cal and falls in love. But then Cal rejoins his ship. When Pixie falls pregnant, her life changes dramatically. Alone and unable to work, she has to rely on the kindness of friends to help her survive. Happiness seems like a thing of the past. Little does she know that there are plenty of surprises waiting for her - good ones at that. Love may be closer than she thinks.

The Munition Girls Series

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1787472450
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The Munition Girls Series written by Rosie Archer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the darkest of times, good friends will see you through. Three heartwarming sagas for fans of Daisy Styles, Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean. THE MUNITIONS GIRLS 19-year-old Pixie isn't going to let a little war get in the way of a good time. Her job at the local armaments factory is gruelling and dangerous, but she and the other girls there try and make the most of their time off. Pixie meets American sailor Cal and they fall in love. But Cal has to rejoin his ship, and little does Pixie know just how much her life is about to change... THE CANARY GIRLS Rita Brown is glad to be back at work at the munitions factory after an explosion put her in hospital. She's caught the eye of local bad boy Blackie Bristow, who is sweeping her round the country in a whirl of shady glamour. Her friends from the factory help take her mind off Blackie's darker side. Then she discovers someone at work is leaking secrets to the Germans. With D-Day on the horizon, Rita must work out who's responsible - and fast. THE FACTORY GIRLS Autumn, 1944. Doodlebugs batter the south coast, but factory overseer Em has more than bombs on her plate. Her daughter Lizzie is unexpectedly pregnant, and a strange woman has turned up on her doorstep claiming to be Em's long-lost sister. Em is overjoyed, but is the woman too good to be true? Once again the factory girls must rally round one of heir own.

The Munitions Girls

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784292303
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Munitions Girls written by Rosie Archer and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling, eventful WW2 saga from the popular writer of the Daisy Lane novels - perfect for fans of Daisy Styles. 1943, Gosport, Hampshire. Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory. Not for the first time, her mother has run off with a dodgy-looking bloke, leaving Pixie to pay the rent and fend for herself. Pixie, along with her best friend Rita, Em, the factory overseer, and the rest of the girls are making the most of the war while trying to stay alive. The work is dangerous and the hours long, but in the evenings they take off their overalls and go to the pub or, better still, go dancing. Pixie meets American serviceman Cal and falls in love. But then Cal rejoins his ship. When Pixie falls pregnant, her life changes dramatically. Alone and unable to work, she has to rely on the kindness of friends to help her survive. Happiness seems like a thing of the past. Little does she know that there are plenty of surprises waiting for her - good ones at that. Love may be closer than she thinks.

Bomb Girls

Author : Barbara Dickson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459731182
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Bomb Girls written by Barbara Dickson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War. What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the Riveter” so popularly advertised to promote factory work in war propaganda posters? How closely does the recent TV show, Bomb Girls, resemble the actual historical record of the day-to-day lives of bomb-making employees? Bomb Girls delivers a dramatic, personal, and detailed review of Canada’s largest fuse-filling munitions factory, situated in Scarborough, Ontario. First-hand accounts, technical records, photographic evidence, business documentation, and site maps all come together to offer a rare, complete account into the lives of over twenty-one thousand brave men and women who risked their lives daily while handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to help win the war.

The Munition Girls Series

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787472450
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The Munition Girls Series written by Rosie Archer and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the darkest of times, good friends will see you through. Three heartwarming sagas for fans of Daisy Styles, Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean. THE MUNITIONS GIRLS 19-year-old Pixie isn't going to let a little war get in the way of a good time. Her job at the local armaments factory is gruelling and dangerous, but she and the other girls there try and make the most of their time off. Pixie meets American sailor Cal and they fall in love. But Cal has to rejoin his ship, and little does Pixie know just how much her life is about to change... THE CANARY GIRLS Rita Brown is glad to be back at work at the munitions factory after an explosion put her in hospital. She's caught the eye of local bad boy Blackie Bristow, who is sweeping her round the country in a whirl of shady glamour. Her friends from the factory help take her mind off Blackie's darker side. Then she discovers someone at work is leaking secrets to the Germans. With D-Day on the horizon, Rita must work out who's responsible - and fast. THE FACTORY GIRLS Autumn, 1944. Doodlebugs batter the south coast, but factory overseer Em has more than bombs on her plate. Her daughter Lizzie is unexpectedly pregnant, and a strange woman has turned up on her doorstep claiming to be Em's long-lost sister. Em is overjoyed, but is the woman too good to be true? Once again the factory girls must rally round one of heir own.

The Factory Girls

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1784297860
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Factory Girls written by Rosie Archer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Daisy Styles, a heart-warming wartime saga about a group of women who work in an armaments factory. No matter how hard the times, despite bombing, short rations, cruel men, unwanted pregnancy, through thick and thin friendship will pull you through. Autumn, 1944. Doodlebugs are the latest threat to war-battered southern England. At Priddy's Hard munitions factory though, Em Earle is about to suffer a threat to her livelihood from much nearer home. Local crook Samuel Golden is back and up to his old tricks, trying to find ways to exploit people's hardship for his own gain. As well as Samuel's unwanted attentions, Em has to deal with some huge revelations from within her own family. Her daughter Lizzie is pregnant, and a strange woman has turned up on Em's doorstep claiming to be her sister. Em is excited, but wary - could this woman be too good to be true? Once again it will be up to the girls from the bomb factory to rally round and support one of their own.

The Cowkeeper's Wish

Author : Tracy Kasaboski
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771622032
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Cowkeeper's Wish written by Tracy Kasaboski and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Lloyd George's Munition Girls

Author : Monica Cosens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lloyd George's Munition Girls written by Monica Cosens and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poster Girls

Author : Meredith Ritchie
Publisher : Warren Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781954614598
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Poster Girls written by Meredith Ritchie and published by Warren Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte's largest wartime employer--the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant. Meanwhile, military wife and Alabama native, Kora Bell's steadfast determination enables her to navigate the challenges she faces as a Black woman seeking employment under Jim Crow. A shared love of literature begins an unlikely friendship between Kora and Maggie, and the two work together to unify the plant's workforce. Stringent rules are necessary when the air is charged with gun powder and polite society, until Maggie and Kora must break them in order to support their families, end the war, and bring their husbands home. Told from two perspectives, Poster Girls is driven by the true but forgotten events and accomplishments of a diverse group of American women, both relevant and necessary to stop modern cycles of misundestanding.

The Bomb Girls

Author : Daisy Styles
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1405924357
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Bomb Girls written by Daisy Styles and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an ordinary day in 1941, a letter arrives on the doormats of five young women, a letter which will change everything. Lillian is distraught. And whether she tears, hides or burns the letter the words remain the same - she must register for compulsory war work. Many miles away, Emily is also furious - her dream job as a chef will have to be put on hold, whilst studious Alice must abandon her plans of college. Staring at an identical letter, Elsie feels a kindling of hope at the possibility of leaving behind her brutal father. And down in London, Agnes has her own reasons for packing her bags with a smile. Brought together at a munitions factory in a Lancashire mill town, none of them knows what lies ahead. Sharing grief and joy, lost dreams and gained opportunities, the five new bomb girls will find friendship and strength that they never before thought possible as they unite to help the country they love survive. Praise for Daisy Styles 'A great read that I think will appeal to fans of wartime sagas and authors like Donna Douglas . . . From dances to disasters, encounters with handsome Yanks, rationing and relationships, The Bomb Girls has all the ingredients of an excellent wartime drama and I thoroughly enjoyed it!' Onemorepage.com 'The story is full of drama, love, heartbreak, friendship and in some part some comedy . . . It's full of twist and turns and is a real page turner' Laurahbookblog

The Canary Girls

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750543859
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Canary Girls written by Rosie Archer and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1944, Hampshire. In the munitions factory they call them the Canary Girls ¿ the chemicals the women have to work with turn their hair yellow. Although her face bears the scars from an explosion at the factory, Rita Brown is getting back on her feet. She has caught the eye of local wide boy Blackie Bristow. But there's a war on and some of the local men are taking advantage of the topsy-turvy world to break more than just hearts. Rita discovers someone at the factory is leaking secrets to the Germans. With D-Day on the horizon, she must work out who she can rely on - and fast.

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Author : Sally Nicholls
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448188822
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Things a Bright Girl Can Do written by Sally Nicholls and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay the ultimate price for women's freedom. May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together and in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May and Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice?

War Girls

Author : Adèle Geras
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448187478
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book War Girls written by Adèle Geras and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. 1914: war has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict. This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life at the Front Line; a young woman discovers independence and intrigue in wartime London; and a grief-stricken widow defends her homeland amidst the destruction of war. Through these and other tales, War Girls presents a moving portrait of loss and grief, and of hope overcoming terrible odds.

The Gunpowder and Glory Girls

Author : Rosie Archer
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784297852
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book The Gunpowder and Glory Girls written by Rosie Archer and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war is drawing to a close, but the munitions girls are still hard at work in the factory. Gladys, who's been promoted to overseer, has been feeling lonely lately. Her friend Em, and Em's daughter Lizzie, have moved away, and a lot of others have left Gosport too. Then an act of kindness towards Goldie, a homeless teenager, provides Gladys with a new friend and lodger. But Goldie has run away from her dangerous family - a group of local gangsters and black-market smugglers, including a particular thug, a pimp, who is determined to make the girl his own Can Gladys keep both of them safe while dealing with her own unexpected pregnancy?

Lily and the Rockets

Author : Rebecca Stevens
Publisher : Chicken House
ISBN 13 : 191262625X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Lily and the Rockets written by Rebecca Stevens and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless middle-grade story of football, friendship and determination from acclaimed author Rebecca Stevens. Lily has a job at the munitions factory and a goalkeeper's spot with a new women's football team, the Rockets. When the war ends, the girls lose their jobs and their football. But Lily refuses to give up her dream ...

A Forgotten Army

Author : Mari A. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forgotten Army written by Mari A. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II brought about a remarkable expansion in female work opportunities in South Wales. Women suddenly found themselves performing unfamiliar work in unfamiliar surroundings and earning relatively handsome wages. Yet, despite the dramatic changes such work caused, surprisingly little is known about the experiences of women employed in the munitions factories of South Wales. A Forgotten Army aims to recover their lost voices and to highlight the vital role played by Welsh munitionettes in World War II.