Author(s): Kate Adie

History

A vivid history of ordinary women and their extraordinary deeds through two world wars and beyond.

Kate Adie, as the BBC's Chief News Correspondent, celebrates the remarkable and often unacknowledged heroism of women whose wide range of roles - from nursing to land girl to fighter pilot - have been so essential to military and civilian life through two world wars and beyond. Using contemporary newspaper reports and personal accounts and letters she illuminates the experiences and the attitudes.