Women in the First World War

by Neil R. Storey and Molly Housego

The First World War was the conduit for some of the most dramatic changes in the role of women in British society. Suffragettes gave up their militant protests to support the war effort, and from the moment war broke out women were ready; many had already trained as military and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses. As more and more men left to serve in the armed forces more and more jobs, most of them pre-war preserves of men, were taken over by women,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747807523
• ISBN13: 9780747807520
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.0"