American Women in a World at WarAmerican Women in a World at War

This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war.

Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into the six sections listed below:

• Preparing for War
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• In the Military
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• At 'Far-Flung' Fronts
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• On the Home Front
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• War Jobs
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• Preparing for the Postwar World
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This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war.

Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into the six sections listed below:

• Preparing for War
• 
  
• In the Military
• 
  
• At 'Far-Flung' Fronts
• 
  
• On the Home Front
• 
  
• War Jobs
• 
  
• Preparing for the Postwar World

A collection of 25 excerpts and short pieces describing women preparing for war, in the military, at far-flung fronts, on the home front, in war jobs, and preparing for the postwar world. Among the accounts are the negro women in national defense, three years behind the mast, shooting the Russian war, babies who must travel (US government publication), and the shipyard diary of a woman welder. Includes a list of recommended reading, but no index or references. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.