What did you do in the war, Mummy?
Subtitle: women in World War II
By: Mavis Nicholson.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.; Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "In this unique and eye-opening collection of interviews, women from different walks of life - some famous, some unknowntalk with frankness and humour to Mavis Nicholson about how they lived and worked, loved and managed during the war years. They include a barrage balloon operator, a munitions worker, a Windmill girl, a signals operator, landgirls, ambulance drivers, nurses, Waafs, Wrens, an air-raid warden, a favourite singer and a secret agent." "Their stories uncover, for almost the first time, the vivid and intimate details of women's lives between 1939 and 1945, the make-do and mend, the new freedoms, the courage, the hopes and the terrors, but also the euphoria and disappointments which followed, and the post-war adjustments that had to be made when their men returned."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.