Download or read book Debs at War written by Anne de Courcy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. For many, the almost military regime of an upper class childhood meant they were well suited for the no-nonsense approach needed in wartime. This book records the extraordinary diversity of challenges, shocks and responsibilities they faced - as chauffeurs, couriers, ambulance-drivers, nurses, pilots, spies, decoders, factory workers, farmers, land girls, as well as in the Women's Services. How much did class barriers really come down? Did they stick with their own sort? And what about fun and love in wartime - did love cross the class barriers?

Download or read book Debs at War 1939 1945 written by Anne De Courcy and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on how wartime changed the lives of the most sheltered section of British society - the young, unmarried daughters of the upper classes.

Download or read book Debs at War written by Anne De Courcy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on how wartime changed the lives of the most sheltered section of British society - the young, unmarried daughters of the upper classes.

Download or read book Debs at War 1939 1945 written by Anne De Courcy and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. For many, the almost military regime of an upper class childhood meant they were well suited for the no-nonsense approach needed in wartime. This book records the extraordinary diversity of challenges, shocks and responsibilities they faced - as chauffeurs, couriers, ambulance-drivers, nurses, pilots, spies, decoders, factory workers, farmers, land girls, as well as in the Women's Services. How much did class barriers really come down? Did they stick with their own sort? And what about fun and love in wartime - did love cross the class barriers?

Download or read book Europe at War written by Norman Davies and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the biggest operation of World War II in Europe? What was the name of the largest concentration camp operating in Europe between 1939 and 1945? What European nationality lost the largest number of civilians between 1939-45? This work answers these questions and presents a history of the Second World War.

Download or read book Ware at War 1939 1945 written by Derek Armes and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Second World War 1939 1945 written by Christine Hatt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series takes a fresh look at history by using original documents as the starting points for studying major events or periods in the past. This text covers World War II.

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Download or read book The War Years 1939 1945 written by Isidor Feinstein Stone and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Stone's weekly account of WWII as published in The Nation between 1939-1945.

Download or read book The FitzOsbornes at War written by Michelle Cooper and published by Ember. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War. Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her journal with tales of a life during wartime. Blackouts and the Blitz. Dancing in nightclubs with soliders on leave. And endlessly waiting for news of her brother Toby, whose plane was shot down over enemy territory. But even as bombs rain down on London, hope springs up, and love blooms for this most endearing princess. And when the Allies begin to drive their way across Europe, the FitzOsbornes take heart—maybe, just maybe, there will be a way to liberate Montmaray as well.

Download or read book Devon at War 1939 1945 written by Gerald Wasley and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Devon at War' covers events on the home front during the Second World War, setting them against the ebb and flow of the conflict between the Allied and Axis forces.

Download or read book Sisters in Arms written by Jeremy A. Crang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Crang provides a compelling new history of women who served with the British armed forces during the Second World War.

Download or read book Front Page World War II written by John Davison and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Devon at War 1939 1945 written by Gerald D. Wasley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Distant Hours written by Kate Morton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edie Burchill visits Milderhurst Castle where her mother stayed during World War II, discovering the three elderly sisters of the castle still alive but haunted by the secrets of their past life with their father, a famous children's author.

Download or read book Raymond Carr written by María Jesús González Hernández and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in collaboration with the Ca'anada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies."

Download or read book The Ordeal of Total War 1939 1945 written by Gordon Wright and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers the scope of World War II, before the H-bomb. Encompasses Europe on the brink of war, the expansion of German power, the war's economic, psychological, and scientific dimensions, & the resurgence of Allied power. B & W photos & illus."--Publisher