- Publisher: History Press
- Year: 2019
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x175mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9780750990738
- Product code: 516394
Women of the Home Front
Serving the Nation in Photographs
Intro. Elisabeth Shipton New Hardback Illustrated
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This photographic survey records the work and contributions of women on the Home Front in a wide variety of services and military branches supporting the war effort. With around 150 images, it illustrates the breadth of roles they filled, from agriculture, policing and meteorology to building bomber engines and maintaining anti-aircraft guns.
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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.
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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This photographic survey records the work and contributions of women on the Home Front in a wide variety of services and military branches supporting the war effort. With around 150 images, it illustrates the breadth of roles they filled, from agriculture, policing and meteorology to building bomber engines and maintaining anti-aircraft guns.
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Intro. Elisabeth Shipton
General
197x175mm
History Press
No
Hardback
Social & Cultural
