Women at War 1914-1918 (Pitkin Guide to)

by Carol Harris (Author), Pitkin (Author)

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  2014

  $3.25

  The vision of the First World War today is of men waved off to war, of haunting photographs of trenches and shattered landscapes. But with fathers, husbands and sons conscripted to the forces, and the resulting labour shortages, between 1914 and 1918 an estimated two million women replaced men in employment. The Home Front became a new kind of ba