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Loading... We Also Served: The Forgotten Women of the First World Warby Vivien Newman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A good cursory look at the many different ways women served in WWI. Newman blends together first-hand accounts of service, paying attention to the class differences and tensions. ( ) no reviews | add a review
We Also Served is a social history of women's involvement in the First World War. Dr Vivien Newman disturbs myths and preconceptions surrounding women's war work and seeks to inform contemporary readers of countless acts of derring-do, determination, and quiet heroism by British women, that went on behind the scenes from 1914-1918. In August 1914 a mere 640 women had a clearly defined wartime role. Ignoring early War Office advice to 'go home and sit still', by 1918 hundreds of thousands of women from all corners of the world had lent their individual wills and collective strength to the Allied cause. As well as becoming nurses, munitions workers, and members of the Land Army, women were also ambulance drivers and surgeons; they served with the Armed Forces; funded and managed their own hospitals within sight and sound of the guns. At least one British woman bore arms, and over a thousand women lost their lives as a direct result of their involvement with the war. This book lets these all but forgotten women speak directly to us of their war, their lives, and their stories. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.3082History and Geography Europe Europe World War I 1914-1918 World War I as it relates to particular types of people Females in the WWILC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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