War Stories
eBook - ePub

War Stories

The Experiences of Women in the Second World War

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

War Stories

The Experiences of Women in the Second World War

About this book

After listening to his mother-in-law talking about her experiences in the Second World War, David Bolton set out to record the wartime memories of British women before it was too late. Many of those he interviewed were child evacuees, some were single mothers, two were ambulance drivers and another was the girlfriend of an American GI killed on D-Day. Other women remembered their experiences working as a young doctor in a POW camp, in a munitions factory filling shells or as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. War Stories archives the memories of over fifty women in their own words, supplemented by memoirs and diary entries. All tell their very personal war stories with honesty, humour, an amazing memory for detail and a boldness sometimes bordering on the confessional – perhaps because this was their last chance to describe what it was really like to be female in those extraordinary times.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 In the Beginning
  8. 2 Preparing for the Worst: Gas Masks, Shelters and the Blackout
  9. 3 For Safety’s Sake: Evacuees’ Stories
  10. 4 Blitzed
  11. 5 Death and Destruction
  12. 6 Called Up!
  13. 7 War Work
  14. 8 Hard Times
  15. 9 Not All Doom and Gloom
  16. 10 Love and Marriage
  17. 11 ā€˜Overpaid, Oversexed and Over Here’
  18. 12 Waiting and Hoping, and then the Day it all Ended
  19. Bibliography