Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
1786733250
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1786723255
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1788310012
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9781786733252
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9781788310017
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9781786723253
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9781350989412
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9781786733252
Series Statement:
International Library of War Studies 22
Content:
"The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the service and the impact key individuals had on it and in turn the influence it had on its members. Hannah Roberts offers new insights into a previously little studied British military institution, which celebrates its centenary in 2017. She shows how political and military decision-making within the fluctuating national security situation, coupled with a growing cultural acceptability of women taking on military roles, allowed for the growth of the service in World War II into realms never expected of women. Although it shared a similar pattern in its formation to the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and had a similar ethos to its Air Force counterpart, the WAAF, the WRNS took on a wider-ranging role in the war, in part due to the latitude afforded to the service because of its uniquely independent origins. From 1941 onward the WRNS spread internationally and subverted the combat taboo by adopting semi-combatant roles. Using twenty-one new oral histories and a multitude of archived personal documents, this book demonstrates the pivotal importance of the Women's Royal Naval Service in both the world wars."--
Content:
Table of figures -- Abbreviations and terminology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The creation of the World War One WRNS -- Chapter 2 The World War One WRNS: 1917́€"1919 -- Chapter 3 The re-creation of the WRNS -- Chapter 4 April 1939́€"1941: management and growth of the 'civilian' service -- Chapter 5 Becoming a Wren: meritocracy over social position -- Chapter 6 Subversion of the combat taboo -- Chapter 7 Social perceptions and relationships in the service -- Postscript: The service post-war and the impact on the Wrens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1788310012
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roberts, Hannah WRNS in wartime London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018 ISBN 1788310012
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350989412
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