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The Roses Of No Man's Land
The Roses Of No Man's Land
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manife...
A Notable Woman
A Notable Woman
'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' Hilary Mantell
In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing ove...
A Nurse At The Front
A Nurse At The Front : The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton
This book, the second in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, tells a story that is rarely...
Bomb Girls
Bomb Girls
They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war mach...
Britannia's Daughters : The Story Of The WRNS
Britannia's Daughters : The Story of the WRENS
The Women's Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a man for sea service. At the peak there was over 5,000 women serving in Brit...
Displaced By War
Displaced By War : Gertrude Powicke and Quaker Relief in France and Poland 1915-1919
Gertrude Powicke as born in 1887 in Hatherlow, near Stockport in Cheshire, and was one of the early women graduates of Manchester Univ...
Domestic Soldiers : Six Women's Lives In The Second World War
Domestic Soldiers : Six Women's Lives inthe Second World War
Over 8 million women stayed at home during the Second World War and their story has never been told. Using brand new research from the Mass-Observation Archiv...
Female Tommies
Female Tommies: The Frontline Women Of The First World War
The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflic...
Fighting on the Home Front
Fighting On The Home Front
A chronicle of the ways in which women's lives changed during World War I and what the impact has been for women today, 100 years laterIn 1914 the world changed forever. This book details how ...
Girls In Khaki : A History of the ATS in the Second World War
Girls In Khaki : A History of the ATS in the Second World War
The Auxiliary Territorial Service was formed in 1938 as Britain faced the threat of war. This is the story of those remarkable women.
They took over many ro...
Holding The Home Front
Holding the Home Front : The Women's Land Army in the First World War
In recent years the Second World War’s Land Girl has caught the public imagination. We’ve seen her in films and television series and novels. We ...
How A Century Of War Changed The Lives Of Women
How A Century of War Changed The Lives of Women
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women’s lives and how those ...
How The Girl Guides Won The War
How The Girl Guides Won The War
A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world -- the Girl Guides -- and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the react...
Jambusters
Jambusters : The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War
The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and ...
Land Girls
Land Girls : Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm
The Women's Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during the Second World War that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the annals ...
Lindell's List
Lindell's List : Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruck
Already a decorated heroine of the First World War, British-born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agent...
Lonely Courage
Lonely Courage : The True Story of the SOE Heroines Who Fought to Free Nazi-Occupied France
'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd On 18 June 194...
My Italian Adventure
My Italian Adventures : An English Girl at War 1943-1947
Wartime Italy is a place of sunshine and shadows. A country torn apart by the turbulent dictatorship of Mussolini and the horrors of Nazi occupation, struggling t...
Nurses of Passchendaele
The Nurses of Passchendaele: Tending the WOunded of Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918
The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmir...
Sisters In Arms : British Army Nurses Tell Their Story
Sisters In Arms : British Army Nurses Tell Their Story
The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and incredibly, remain lar...
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