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Author : Carol Harris
Publisher : Pitkin Unichrome, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781841653792
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Women at War, 1939-1945 written by Carol Harris and published by Pitkin Unichrome, Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women at War 1939-1945
Author : Jack Cassin-Scott
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780850453492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Women at War 1939–45 written by Jack Cassin-Scott and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though for centuries fighting was considered primarily a man's job, the world wars of the 20th century demanded women's involvement in the war effort. By World War II women were playing a major auxiliary role in all branches of the armed forces. From the daring female fighter pilots of besieged Russia to the heroic American nurses on the front line, this book looks at the vital jobs that women undertook at a time of national crisis. Numerous fascinating photos and eight full colour plates detail the uniforms and equipment of the British, American German and Russian women who participated in this global conflict.
Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275871
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Women's Experiences of the Second World War written by Mark J. Crowley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Author : Carol Harris
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952814
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Women at War 1939-1945 written by Carol Harris and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2000-10-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the outbreak of the Second World War, official calculations showed Britain would be short of the manpower needed to fight the enemy and keep up production of weapons, food and other essentials. It was hoped that women volunteers would full the gaps and so they volunteered as workers in Civil Defence, the Women's Land Army, munitions factories and non-combatant roles in the Forces. But by 1941, the Government had to face facts: any effective response would have to involve conscription of British women. All females between the ages of fourteen and sixty-four were registered and soon the vast majority had work to do. They collected tons of salvage, knitted and sewed, and raised money for warships and weapons. Women ran fire stations and drove makeshift ambulances while cities burned and enemy bombs exploded around them. They kept their families going, often as single parents while their husbands were away for years in the armed forces. By the end of the war, some of the most experienced rat-catchers in the country were female; others were accomplished engineers, carters, rail workers and bargees. When it was over, these wartime roles were not commemorated in films and books. There has been little official acknowledgement of the enormous and crucial contribution those British women made to the lives we live now. Many are getting on in years and their precious first-hand memories will go with them. Their stories are worth telling now for that alone. But they are also tales of love, death, sacrifice and romance, of humour and horror, and of an extraordinary time, when ordinary women did extraordinary things.
Author : Carol Harris
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750926331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Women at War written by Carol Harris and published by History Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the role played by British women in World War II, brought to life by a rich selection of contemporary photographs and eyewitness accounts.
Author : Deborah Montgomerie
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869402440
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Women's War written by Deborah Montgomerie and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explains the ambiguities of wartime changes in the private and public lives of New Zealand women. It considers women as mothers, wives and lovers, as well as workers, using many examples from real lives. Deborah Montgomerie's main argument is that despite the changes, the war was essentially a conservative period, pointing out that understanding the continuities in gender relations is as important as cataloguing female 'firsts'. Her book stylishly challenges accepted wisdom and offers a clear, fresh view of a period often viewed through the blurry lens of nostalgia and anecdote."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 178022575X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Debs at War written by Anne de Courcy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. For many, the almost military regime of an upper class childhood meant they were well suited for the no-nonsense approach needed in wartime. This book records the extraordinary diversity of challenges, shocks and responsibilities they faced - as chauffeurs, couriers, ambulance-drivers, nurses, pilots, spies, decoders, factory workers, farmers, land girls, as well as in the Women's Services. How much did class barriers really come down? Did they stick with their own sort? And what about fun and love in wartime - did love cross the class barriers?
Author : Martin Brayley
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841760537
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book World War II Allied Women's Services written by Martin Brayley and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of women to the Allied war effort during World War II (1939-45) was massive. Apart from their many vital roles 'on the home front', about a million Soviet, 500,000 British and 200,000 American women, and tens of thousands from other Allied nations, served in uniform with the armed forces. To put these figures in perspective: enough American women served to free sufficient able-bodied men to form 15 infantry divisions. It was not only in the USSR that their duties took them into harm's way; hundreds of British Commonwealth and US servicewomen died, and many were decorated. This book gives a concise introduction to the organisation and uniforms of these services, with an emphasis on the British and US forces.
Author : Stewart Ross
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 9780237533946
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Women's War written by Stewart Ross and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this series uses primary source evidence such as diaries, posters, newspaper cuttings and oral accounts to portray life on the Home Front.
Author : Leila J. Rupp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691046495
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Mobilizing Women for War written by Leila J. Rupp and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how war affected the status of women in two industrialized states
Author : Penny Starns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750923873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Nurses at War written by Penny Starns and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a range of oral and written testimonies, this text examines the personal experience of nurses who played a role at the front during World War II in theatres as far apart as Africa, Europe and the Far East. Britain's female military nurses pursued a frontline policy for the first time, believing that their skills would be of most use to the wounded in operational areas. As a result, they suffered the same consequences of war - bombing, torture, imprisonment - as their male counterparts and more than 3000 of their number died as a result of the policy.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307957187
Total Pages : 1111 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Inferno written by Max Hastings and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context. Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.
Author : Ann Kramer
Publisher : Sea to Sea Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781597711425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Women and War written by Ann Kramer and published by Sea to Sea Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the role of women from the Allied countries during World War II, including those who served in the armed forces, those who took over men's jobs at home, and more.
Author : Kathryn S. Dobie
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595303730
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Her War written by Kathryn S. Dobie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nurse administers anesthetic with the aid of a flashlight as snipers try to pick off members of a U.S. surgical team in Algiers. One member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots tows targets for U.S. antiaircraft trainees, while another test flies repaired military aircraft in Texas. Another American woman in the Philippines smuggles food and medicine to prisoners who survived the Death March on Bataan. In Her War, American women tell the personal, largely unknown stories of their experiences serving their country in World War II. These are not reminiscences recalled through the 60-year haze of memory. These narratives carry the immediacy of the moment, recounted as they occurred or shortly after the war. The women's courage, endurance, and humor shine throughout these first hand dramas. Her War is a verbal quilt of American women's contributions in World War II.
Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350022331
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Post Office Women at War, 1939–45 written by Mark J. Crowley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Post Office was central to Britain's effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sense of common purpose and camaraderie, but also connected Britain with the outside world. Yet, owing to the pressures of military conscription, these essential functions, required to maintain morale on both on the home and military front, were discharged by women workers, many of whom had not previously undertaken such important and complex work. Drawing on a range of archival material, Mark J. Crowley highlights the role of the Post Office and public service in Britain's Second World War home front experience, and examines the vital contribution of women in this area, which has, until now, received little attention from historians. While primarily focusing on the personnel practices affecting the position of women workers in the Post Office and public service, he also draws on the experiences of women workers through surviving oral history accounts, and the limited existing archival material recorded by women workers at the time. While this is not a social history of women's employment in Britain, it will seek to place their experiences of work and duty to the public service in the wider context of the government's expectations of women during the war effort.
Author : Doris Weatherford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415994750
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)
Download or read book American Women During World War II written by Doris Weatherford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing and much more. It also illuminates how the war changed the lives of women in more traditional home front roles. All women had to cope with rationing of basic household goods, and most women volunteered in war-related programs. Other entries discuss institutional change, as the war affected every aspect of life, including as schools, hospitals, and even religion." "American Women during World War II provides a handy one-volume collection of information and images suitable for any public or professional library."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jane Waller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women in Wartime written by Jane Waller and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The unsung heroes of the Second World War were the women who were left behind. Isolated from the action, fearful for the lives of their menfolk and hopeful for a future at peace, they adapted well to a rapidly changing world. This book provides a full commentary onhome life during those wartime years. Drawing on an unrivalled collection of contemporary women's magazines, the authors have extracted features, fashion tips, morale-boosting stories, mottoes and recipes to present a panoramic view of women's shifting roles. Emotional reaciton, the practicalities of working and maintaining a home, relationships with Allied troops and, of course, love, leisure and fashion are all included, together with advertisments and readers' letters from the war years. As never before, the portrait that emerges of women in wartime is one of immense courage, good humour and ingenuity"--Back cover.
