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This book tells the story of women in the First World War at the
front line, under fire, and in combat. Through their diaries,
letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and
followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate and fight
for their country. Follow British Flora Sandes as she joins the
Serbian Army and takes up a place in the rear-guard of the Iron
Regiment as they retreat from the Bulgarian advance. Stow away with
Dorothy Lawrence as she smuggles herself to Paris, steals a uniform
and heads to the Front. Enlist in Russia's all-female 'Battalion of
Death' alongside peasant women and princesses alike. Through the
letters, diaries and memoirs of women who were members of
organisations such as the US Army Signal Corps, the Canadian Army
Medical Corps, the FANY, WRAF, WRNS, WAAC and many others, we learn
what life was like for them on the front and discover the courage
of the women who took up arms.
Celebrate the women who helped win the Second World War. With so
many of the nation's men fighting in Europe or further afield, the
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Women's Land Army (WLA),
Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and Women's Royal Naval Service
(WRNS) were essential parts of the Home Front. From taking care of
farmland and animal husbandry to testing weapons with live
ammunition and transporting aircraft across the country, women from
all over the nation stepped up to serve King and Country. They set
a precedent for female integration into the military, with the WAAF
and WRNS continuing in some form until they were absorbed into the
main armed forces at the end of the twentieth century. The lives of
these servicewomen are presented and commemorated here through a
collection of images taken from Mirrorpix's formidable archive.
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