War Stories - David Bolton

War Stories

Experiences of Women in the Second World War

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2022
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9956-4 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
The very personal war stories and varied experiences of over 50 women who lived through WW2
After listening to his mother-in-law talking about her experiences in the Second World War, David Bolton set out to record the wartime memories of British women before it was too late. Many of those he interviewed were child evacuees, some were single mothers, two were ambulance drivers and another was the girlfriend of an American GI killed on D-Day. Other women remembered their experiences working as a young doctor in a POW camp, in a munitions factory filling shells or as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park.

War Stories archives the memories of over fifty women in their own words, supplemented by memoirs and diary entries. All tell their very personal war stories with honesty, humour, an amazing memory for detail and a boldness sometimes bordering on the confessional – perhaps because this was their last chance to describe what it was really like to be female in those extraordinary times.

David Bolton worked in a broad variety of occupations before settling into a career as a lecturer on English as a foreign language. He has written a number of textbooks for foreign students, published around the world, as well as a local history book on Bristol, where he lives.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.11.2022
Zusatzinfo 32 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-7509-9956-X / 075099956X
ISBN-13 978-0-7509-9956-4 / 9780750999564
Zustand Neuware
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