Women in the War

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An important contribution to our recent history ANDREW MARR

Absorbing and important JOAN BAKEWELL

One of my favourite reads of 2021 GARETH RUSSELL
Poignant and inspiring,Women in the Wartells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving female members of Britain's 'Greatest Generation'.

Whether flying Spitfires to the frontline, aiding code breaking at Bletchley Park, plotting the Battle of the Atlantic or working with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms, each of these women made a crucial contribution to the conflict overseas and helped to buttress the home front.

Here they recount their remarkable experiences during the Second World War, recalling how their formative years were shaped by danger and trauma, and how friendship and romance fortified their spirits.

Drawing on the insight that comes with age, they contemplate how the conflict helped women prove their worth, transforming society and sparking the later battles for equal rights.

With a reporters eye for detail, Lucy Fisher artfully weaves together moving contemporary interviews with gripping wartime diaries and letters. This is a vivid oral history that will stay with you long after you've put it down.

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Riveting Stories that are not only fascinating in themselves, but contain the sort of detail that would only strike those present at the time.
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In all the hundreds of books written about the Second World War, there is a curious lack of information about the role of women. In these series of intimate interviews with some of the last survivors, Lucy Fisher closes the gap. From pilots to land girls, nurses to radio operators, plotters to Downing Street insiders, she hears from some of the remarkable women who helped win the war that defined modern Britain. An important contribution to our recent history. ANDREW MARR

Unsung, and until now unacknowledged, Lucy Fisher tells the story of stalwart yet unassuming women who contributed in obtrusive ways to Britains victory in World War Two. Land girl, wireless operator, secretary in the Cabinet war rooms, plotter in the Wrens, paraphraser at Bletchley Park: these women talk of their important, even dangerous lives, setting the record straight. This is an absorbing and important footnote to the history of World War Two. JOAN BAKEWELL

One of my favourite reads of 2021. Wonderfully written,Women in the Warcaptures the voices of ten extraordinary veterans of the Second World War whose stories take us from Bletchley Park to military aircraft, to busy English hospitals and a Blitz-torn Belfast.Women in the Waris by turns uplifting, nerve-wracking, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny. It is also a storyof finding freedom amid fear. The courage and tenacity of these women left me in awe. GARETH RUSSELL

Author Bio

Lucy Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. She is Deputy Political Editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster on the BBC and Sky News. Previously she was Chief Political Correspondent, and then Defence Editor of The Times, and has reported from across the world, including Brussels and Washington, as well as Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arctic. Her first book, Emily wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette, was published in 2013. She lives in London with her husband.