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Cargando... Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World Warpor Julie Summers
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent book that became the foundation for the PBS Masterpiece Theater drama of the same name. The author provides a view into the workings of the Women's Institute in Great Britain during the second world war. The women of rural England provided untold hours of service and effort to support the war effort for the troops in the field and for the maintenance of home life. It was a reminder of how well we have it when reading the notes of everyday life for these women. Luxuries for them were running water and indoor plumbing. They not only did the duties expected of a rural housewife they took over for the men that were not there, organized the movement of evacuees from the big cities during the blitz and contributed to the raising of food and making of clothes. Truly awe inspiring tale. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Soon to be a PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford). Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country's war effort. As members of the Women's Institute, an organization with a presence in a third of Britain's villages, they ran canteens and knitted garments for troops, collected tons of rosehips and other herbs to replace medicines that couldn't be imported, and advised the government on issues ranging from evacuee housing to children's health to postwar reconstruction. But they are best known for making jam: from produce they grew on every available scrap of land, they produced twelve million pounds of jam and preserves to feed a hungry nation. Home Fires, Julie Summers's fascinating social history of the Women's Institute during the war (when its members included the future Queen Elizabeth II along with her mother and grandmother), provides the remarkable and inspiring true story behind the upcoming PBS Masterpiece series that will be sure to delight fans of Call the Midwife and Foyle's War. Through archival material and interviews with current and former Women's Institute members, Home Fires gives us an intimate look at life on the home front during World War II"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)940.53082History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Culture Studies Women in World War 2Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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