Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars

How women perceived the world wars of this century is markedly different from the common perception of how these wars affected their lives.

Drawing on a broad variety of sources, many long out of print, this anthology brings together the autobiographical accounts of both famous and ordinary women to provide a new view of the changing role of women as they experienced the sorrows, the terrors and the occasional joys of war in the twentieth century.