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4 star general, 13 Jul 2008
a great read could not put it down a 4 star general a five star book enjoy charmone
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Product Description
Another contribution to the growing body of work on women's experience of war, Joyce Marlow's anthology collects a broad spectrum of women's writings on the First World War. Extracts from diaries--published and unpublished--autobiographies, letters, newspapers, and memoirs jostle for the reader's attention, carrying the voices of an equally diverse range of women from Britain, the USA, France, Germany, and Russia. Nurses, train drivers, bank clerks, munition workers, policewomen, a "woman diplomatist", patriots, campaigners for peace: the list could go on, and the strength of this book is the scope and interest of the material it makes available (notably, extracts from previously untranslated German anthologies). Marlow includes a general introduction, together with brief notes to each section (one for each year of the war) and a guide to contributors-- some well known, others apparently unknown beyond their fleeting, if sometimes vivid, appearance here. There is some attempt to arrange material within the annual sections: various subheadings--"Off to War", for example, "Nursing and Bloody Madness", "Air Raids and Rations", "Sex and Cinema Violence", "The Latest Excitements in Britain and Ireland"--do help to orient the reader. Nevertheless, it can be difficult to gauge the time, place, and purpose of the many different kinds of extracts included here--the inevitable weakness, perhaps, of such a wide- ranging anthology. --Vicky Lebeau
Customer Reviews
4 star general, 13 Jul 2008
a great read could not put it down a 4 star general a five star book enjoy charmone
A fascinating look at WW1 through women's eyes, 15 Mar 2008
This is an enthralling collection of accounts of the rich and varied experiences of all sorts of different women during WW1. There is a hair-raising description of a stretcher bearer in the trenches, a dazzlingly vivid account of a Zeppelin air-raid, an hilarious description by an American nurse of assisting at an operation at which the French doctor calmly allowed the ash from his cigarette to drop into the wound he was operating on, "C'est sterile" he calmly explained to the nurse. Learn what it was like to work in a munitions factory, to be present at the execution of Edith Cavell, or to be on board the Lusitania when it sank. Every one of the pieces in this book is different, and every one is fascinating.
They also serve, 14 Oct 2003
Another excellent contribution to the understanding of the effects of the Great War. Joyce Marlow offers a thought-provoking selection of memoirs - first hand accounts of women's experiences, linked by careful analysis.
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Customer Reviews
4 star general, 13 Jul 2008
a great read could not put it down a 4 star general a five star book enjoy charmone
A fascinating look at WW1 through women's eyes, 15 Mar 2008
This is an enthralling collection of accounts of the rich and varied experiences of all sorts of different women during WW1. There is a hair-raising description of a stretcher bearer in the trenches, a dazzlingly vivid account of a Zeppelin air-raid, an hilarious description by an American nurse of assisting at an operation at which the French doctor calmly allowed the ash from his cigarette to drop into the wound he was operating on, "C'est sterile" he calmly explained to the nurse. Learn what it was like to work in a munitions factory, to be present at the execution of Edith Cavell, or to be on board the Lusitania when it sank. Every one of the pieces in this book is different, and every one is fascinating.
They also serve, 14 Oct 2003
Another excellent contribution to the understanding of the effects of the Great War. Joyce Marlow offers a thought-provoking selection of memoirs - first hand accounts of women's experiences, linked by careful analysis.
Complete bore..., 27 May 2007
Title I was looking forward to. Turned out to be a complete bore and very tedious to read.
Just followed meaningless unit numbers through the pages, no personal accounts. If it hadn't been for the maps (which where very...very...basic!)I wouldn't have had a clue what had been described.
One full page map covered a town and a couple lines that showed US MG positions...and!? I want maps where i see action and can cover the action.
Just primitve!
Books a waste of money for what you get and being typically overpriced by Osprey that's an audacity.
It's a con, save your money.
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