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Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington
‘This book is an impressionistic history – a patchwork of lives,’ so writes Lucy Adlington in her introduction. But what pieces of the patchwork. Each fragment, each memory or anecdote has such resonance, set against the backdrop of war. Spanning the lives of the one billion women who lived in the WW2 era, the book covers British women’s lives and clothing on the Home Front, yes, but also their uniforms – and the clothing of women around the globe. These include concentration camp inmates, resistance operatives, SAS staff, women in post-atomic Japan, and those imprisoned
