Women in the Great War

Women in the Great WarDescription by Stephen Wynn & Tanya Wynn Paperback The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theaters of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women in the workplace were employed in such jobs as domestic service, clerical work, shop assistants, teachers or as

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The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women

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Preparing for War concludes by demonstrating how these new notions set the conditions for many of the successes—and some of the failures—of General Pershing’s American Expeditionary Forces

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Dixon’s documentation of American Indian veterans of World War I adds greatly to our understanding of the experiences of American Indians in the U