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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
About the Author
List of Illustrations
Inset Illustrations
Illustrations in the Text
Author’s Note
Prelude
Millions Like Us
1 We’re at War
Ready for the Fray
Heaven Help Us
The Children
The Darkness
Uncharted Territory
2 All Our Prayers
Behind the Maginot
It Couldn’t Happen to Us
In the Face of Danger
Beached
So Naked, So Alone
3 Wreckage
The Love of Her Life
The Sad Atlantic
Battleground
Taking It
Nights of Fire
4 ‘Ready to Win the War’
White Alert
Red Alert
A Man’s Job
Cheap Wine, Pink Gin
Stocking Wars, Sex Wars
5 ‘Your Country Welcomes Your Services’
Women in Uniform
The Lowest Form of Life
Officers and Ladies
Women Must Weep
Don’t Die for Me
6 The Girl That Makes the Thing-ummy Bob
The Kitchen Front
Clocking On
‘She’s Most Important – in Her Way’
Yanks
Heat and Sand
7 Sunny Intervals
No Tears Left
Out of Bounds
The Wages of Sin
Under the Volcano
Worth Fighting For
8 Over There
A Song and a Cheer
Dancing the Night Away
The Secret Army
The Smell of Death
Mud and Warpaint
9 No Real Victory
Dim-out
The National Effort
Back-room Girls
Until Belsen
This Incredible Moment
10 A Brave New World
A Brief Period of Rejoicing
The Right Telegram
Tomorrow’s Clear Blue Skies
Little Boy and Fat Man
Haunted
11 Picking Up the Threads
Demob
Running on Empty
A Pearl of a Wife
Divided We Fall
A la Recherche
12 A Bitter Time
‘A Fine Type of British Girl’
Our Mothers’ Shoes
The Wifely Thing
Out of Uniform
Vanquished
13 There’ll Be Bluebirds
Flower Women
A Love Match
Modern Times
The Pram in the Hall
Millions Like Them
Illustrations
Appendix: Military and Civilian Casualties among Women 1939–1945
Notes on Sources
Select Bibliography
Biography, Memoirs, Diaries, Autobiography
History, Sociology, Documentation, Advice
Archives and Websites
Acknowledgements
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
Footnotes
Author’s Note
Page xvii
Prelude
Page 6
1 We’re at War
Page 13
3 Wreckage
Page 72
4 ‘Ready to Win the War’
Page 108
5 ‘Your Country Welcomes Your Services’
Page 150
Page 160
Page 167
6 The Girl That Makes the Thing-ummy Bob
Page 185
Page 193
7 Sunny Intervals
Page 220
Page 226
8 Over There
Page 265
Page 275
11 Picking Up the Threads
Page 356
Page 364
Page 368
12 A Bitter Time
Page 386
13 There’ll Be Bluebirds
Page 418
Page 424
Page 425
Page 430
Page 438
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