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The Girls Who Went to War - Heroism, Heartache and Happiness in the Wartime Women's Forces (Paperback)
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The Girls Who Went to War - Heroism, Heartache and Happiness in the Wartime Women's Forces (Paperback)
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List price R255
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The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The
British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while
the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost
twice the size of ours from which to draw new waves of soldiers.
Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn't going
to be enough. Eighteen-year-old Jessie Ward defied her mother to
join the ATS, Margery Pott signed up for the Women's Auxiliary Air
Force, and nanny Kathleen Skin the WRNS. They left quiet homes for
the rigours of training, the camaraderie of the young women who
worked together so closely and to face a war that would change
their lives for ever. Overall, more than half a million women
served in the armed forces during the Second World War. This book
tells the story of just three of them - one from the Army, one from
the Navy and one from the Air Force. But in their stories are
reflected the lives of hundreds of thousands of others like them -
ordinary girls who went to war, wearing their uniforms with pride.
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