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If WW3 was to break out it is possible women could be conscripted to help serve the country, and as tensions rise across the ...
IN the first days of September 1939, in every village of France, the women gazed at the corn stacks, stretching in neat rows across the distant fields. And in each woman’s mind was the same ...
What did you do in the war, Mummy? is a question not asked as often as it should be, says BEL MOONEY.
Millions Like Us - Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949. By The Newsroom. Published 9th May 2011, 16:30 BST. Updated 14th May 2011, 16:23 BST. It wasn't only the men who won the Second World War.
She is the author of Women at War 1939-45: the Home Front, and Women at War in Uniform: 1939-45. She co-authored The Wartime House (Sutton, 2000), with Mike Brown, her husband. Top ...
The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of ... to go to war. In 1939, ...
Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences. As their stories unfold, we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed ...
Women at every level of society were affected by the war and its aftermath. There were three times as many in work by 1942 as there had been in 1939 and correspondingly the number of persons ...