This Small Army of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Small Army of Women write by Linda J. Quiney. This book was released on 2017-05-01. This Small Army of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With her soft linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the First World War. This Small Army of Women draws on diaries, letters, and interviews to tell the forgotten story of the nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to “do their bit” at home and overseas. Middle-class and well-educated but largely untrained, VADs were excluded from Canadian military hospitals overseas (the realm of the professional nurse) but helped solve Britain’s nursing deficit and filled gaps in Canada’s domestic nursing ranks. Their dedication and struggle to secure a place at their brothers’ bedsides reveals much about women’s contributions to the war effort, the tensions between amateur and professional nurses, and women’s evolving role outside the home.
This Small Army of Women
This Small Army of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Small Army of Women write by Linda J. Quiney. This book was released on 2018-01-15. This Small Army of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book tells the story of two thousand nurses from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered overseas and at home in the First World War. Using several historical sources, Quiney describes the effort of well-educated and middle-class but mostly untrained Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurses, who helped solve the nursing deficit of Britain.
Code Girls
Code Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Code Girls write by Liza Mundy. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Code Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.
Women Heroes of the US Army
Women Heroes of the US Army - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Heroes of the US Army write by Ann McCallum Staats. This book was released on 2019. Women Heroes of the US Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The story of women serving in the United States military begins before the founding of the country. Though early laws prohibited women from becoming soldiers, they still found ways to serve, even disguising themselves as men in order to participate in active battle. Women Heroes of the US Army chronicles the critical role women have played in strengthening the US Army from the birth of the nation to today. These smart, brave, and determined women led the way for their sisters to enter, grow and prosper in the forces defending the United States. Through the profiles highlighting the achievements of these trailblazers throughout history, young women today can envision an equitable future"--
The Hello Girls
The Hello Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hello Girls write by Elizabeth Cobbs. This book was released on 2019-04-13. The Hello Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. Back on the home front, they fought the army for veterans’ benefits and medals, and won.
