Our Mothers’ War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women’s experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mo...
Soviet women bore their share of the burden in World War II (locally known as the Great Patriotic War). While most toiled in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of...
The contribution of women to the Allied war effortduring World War II(1939-45) was massive. Apart from their many vital roles 'on the home front', about a million Soviet, 500,000 British and 200,000 American women, and tens of thousands from other Allied nations, served in uniform with...
摘要: Reviews two books on women workers. 'Women Workers in the Second World War,' by Penny Summerfield; 'From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980,' by Lynn Y. Weiner.年份: 1986 ...
By the close of World War II almost 1,000 Russian women had flown combat missions in every type of Soviet warplane.
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The magnitude of World War I required societies to change in order to sustain their war efforts. In Britain, working-class women could go to work in munitions factories as a means of supporting their families. But those who did faced sexism from their employers and unions, as well as class...
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II. Denise Kiernan. Touchstone. 400 pages; black-and-white photographs; in......
Comfort women : sexual slavery in the Japanese military during World War II Comfort women : sexual slavery in the Japanese military during World War II Yoshimi Yoshiaki ; translated by Suzanne O'Brien (Asia perspectives : history, ... 吉見, 義明,O'Brien, Suzanne - Comfort women : sexual ...