Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary Services on the Home Front - Hardcover

Malcomson, Robert

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9781408704103: Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary Services on the Home Front

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408704102 ISBN 13: 9781408704103

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2013

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With war looming, the Women's Voluntary Services was created in 1938; by 1941 a million women had enrolled. This book tells the story of the WVS and its tremendous contribution to the war effort on the home front during the Second World War.

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About the Author:

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in the Mass Observation archive. They have edited several wartime and post-war diaries, including Nella Last's Peace and Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.

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You finish this book full of admiration for the way in which, long before anyone coined the word "sisterhood", British women were able to set aside differences of class, region and religion to pull together for the greater good. The Mail on Sunday Their "heroic" work, suggest the authors in this fascinating study ... [was] an advertisement for what voluntary action, backed by government, could do. -- Michael Kerrigan The Scotsman A good read. Get ready to be inspired by courageous tales from the women who helped us to victory in WWII. Yours magazine

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