Format:
191 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9781783462254
Content:
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 Allie
Note:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Recruiting Women: Sending the Boys, Knittingfor the Boys, Writing for the Boys; Chapter 2 'Thank God We Have The Sisters': NursingPersonnel at the Front; Chapter 3 Making the Munitions of War: Guns, Shellsand Food; Chapter 4 Defiant to the End: Aristocrats, Doctors and Spies; Chapter 5 'We Too Wore Khaki': Service women on theHome and War Fronts; Chapter 6 'Their graves are scattered and their names areclean forgotten': Women who Died; Chapter 7 Giving Sorrows Words: 'His Name Liveth ForEvermore'; Conclusion: 'I was very proud of my service'
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Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Militär
;
Frau
;
Zivilbeschäftigter
;
Erster Weltkrieg
;
Geschichte
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