Featuring well over 100 women, from well-known writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Rosamond Lehmann, Freya Stark, Virginia Woolf and Beatrice Webb, to canteen workers and clippies who had never picked up a pen before, this collection unites their work for the first time. Ranging from lighter accounts of austerity - the struggle for an onion, endless queues and shorter hemlines - to a chilling description of the 1938 Nuremberg Rally and Martha Gellhorn's report of Dachau in 1945, this is a portrait of the war years, as seen ...
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Featuring well over 100 women, from well-known writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Rosamond Lehmann, Freya Stark, Virginia Woolf and Beatrice Webb, to canteen workers and clippies who had never picked up a pen before, this collection unites their work for the first time. Ranging from lighter accounts of austerity - the struggle for an onion, endless queues and shorter hemlines - to a chilling description of the 1938 Nuremberg Rally and Martha Gellhorn's report of Dachau in 1945, this is a portrait of the war years, as seen through women's eyes.
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 9781853816710.