Female Tommies (eBook)

The Frontline Women of the First World War

Elisabeth Shipton (Autor)

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2014
160 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5748-9 (ISBN)

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The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history.Female Tommies looks at the military role of women worldwide during the Great War and reveals the extraordinary women who served on the frontline.
Through their diaries, letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate and fight for their country. Follow British Flora Sandes as she joins the Serbian Army and takes up a place in the rearguard of the Iron Regiment as they retreat from the Bulgarian advance. Stow away with Dorothy Lawrence as she smuggles herself to Paris, steals a uniform and heads to the front. Enlist in Russia's all-female 'Battalion of Death' alongside peasant women and princesses alike.
The personal accounts of these women, who were members of organisations such as the US Army Signal Corps, the Canadian Army Medical Corps, the FANY, WRAF, WRNS, WAAC and many others, provide a valuable insight into what life was like for women in a male-dominated environment.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2014
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Canadian medical corps • Dorothy Lawrence • elsie knocker • FANY • female • female death battalion • female doctors • female yeomen • First Aid • First Aid Nursing Yeomanry • First World War • First World War, ww1, wwi, World War One, World War 1, world war i, The Great War, frontline, women, female, flora sandes, iron regiment, Dorothy Lawrence, female death battalion, us signal army corps, Canadian medical corps, FANY, WRAF, WRNS, WAAC, militarisation, VAD, voluntary aid detachment, • flora sandes • Frontline • iron regiment • |Katharine furse • Katharine furse • Katharine furse, first aid nursing yeomanry, elsie knocker, mairi Chisholm, women of pervyse, first aid, female doctors, women’s army auxiliary corps, women’s royal naval service, women’s royal air force, female yeomen, women’s battalion of death, Sapper Dorothy Lawrence, Royal Engineers, • Katharine furse, first aid nursing yeomanry, elsie knocker, mairi Chisholm, women of pervyse, first aid, female doctors, women’s army auxiliary corps, women’s royal naval service, women’s royal air force, female yeomen, women’s battalion of death, Sapper Dorothy Lawrence, Royal Engineers, • mairi Chisholm • Militarisation • Royal Engineers • Sapper Dorothy Lawrence • |suffragettes • suffragettes • suffragettes, women's history, women in history, the frontline women of the first world war • the frontline women of the first world war • The Great War • us signal army corps • VAD • voluntary aid detachment • WAAC • Women • Women in History • women of pervyse • women’s army auxiliary corps • women’s battalion of death • Women's history • women’s royal air force • women’s royal naval service • World War 1 • World War I • World War One • WRAF • WRNS • WW1 • wwi
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-5748-4 / 0750957484
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-5748-9 / 9780750957489