American Women in a World at War: Contemporary Accounts from World War II

by Judy Barrett Litoff

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842025715
• ISBN13: 9780842025713
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"