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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...
A Woman of No Importance
Woman of No Importance
'Riveting ... one of the most breath-taking stories yet told of female courage behind enemy lines' Sarah Helm, author of A Life in Secrets'A gripping, relevant and timely read about a remarkable w...
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 WRNS
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 Brita...
British Widows of the First World War
British Widows of the First World War : The Forgotten Legion
Widows of the Great War is the first major account of the experience of women who had to cope with the death of their husbands during the conflict and then re...
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...
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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 ...
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 Girl Manual 1941
Land Girl : A Manual for Volunteers in the Women's Land Army
A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second World War. With millions of men away to figh...
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 ...
Lonely Courage
Lonely Courage
`A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account of the extraordinarily courageous women of SOE is at ...
Looking To London
Looking To London : Stories of War, Escape and Asylum
The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration since its origin. Looking To London ...
Lumberjills
The Lumberjills : Britain's Forgotten Army
When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber - but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: i...
Matron At War
Matron at War : The Story of Katy Beaufoy (1869-1918)
This is the inspiring story of Sister Katy Beaufoy who was born in Aston, Birmingham in 1868 and who served in both the Boer War and World War I. With excerpts from ...
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My Italian Adventures
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...
Nora And John The Russian Love Story
Nora And John : The Russian Love Story
My mother Nora Murray (nee Korzhenko) escaped from Russia in 1942 with John Murray. She was the daughter of a high ranking KGB official based in Moscow's Foreign Office. My father ...
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