Buy this book on-line LYNN,VERA with CROSS,ROBIN and de GEX,JENNY: : UNSUNG HEROINES: The Women Who Won the WarLONDON.SIDGWICK & JACKSON LTD.,1990. ISBN 0283060638.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to
dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,monochrome photographic and colour illustration illustrated dw/dj,with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing is to top edges and top two corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,
solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,
sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth bds with bright,
crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white
eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-176pp [paginated] includes an introduction
by Vera Lynn,authors' note,8 chapters,profuse contemporary,historical b/w+colour photographs,contemporary b/w+colour illustrations facsimile reproductions throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements,a biblio and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w photographic frntis to it's recto,title page,and contents list/table.
In recent years the part played by women in WW2 has increasingly become the subject of both popular history and scholarly analysis.The demands of
Total War,in which every economic and industrial sinew of the nation was bent towards victory,called forth an immense contribution from women,not only on the domestic front but also in the fields,factories and forces,
frequently in roles which would have been inconceivable in the years before 1939.
This marvellously illustrated book,a project long cherished by Dame Vera
Lynn,whose indefatigable war work has become a legend,present an anthology of women's experience throughout the war,seen through their eyes and told in their own words.We follow nurses to the front line in the Western Desert and Normandy; learn how women Air Raid Wardens coped with the horrors of the Blitz and the V-weapons; and share the courage of
Resistance workers and SOE agents in Occupied France.
In 'Unsung Heroines',diaries,letters,memoirs and interviews combine to paint a vivid picture of wartime service and sacrifice.Some of these stories are harrowing,others are full of humour and quirky detail.
They provide living testimony to the bravery,resourcefulness and sheer strength in adversity of women at war.For many of them,the war years were,quite literally,the experience of a lifetime.In the words of one member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF): 'None of us would think
of ourselves as heroines,not even the most decorated.We just carried on from day to day,coping as best as we could,and incidentally met a lot of people from all over the world we wouldn't have done otherwise,and had a
lot of fun on the way.'
See also my book ID's rja513415 and rja539115 - Kate ADIE's 'Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War' for a similar related subject/title.
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