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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. Working For Victory. A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory. During the Second World War, over 1.5 million women found themselves thrust into the previously make domain of the workplace, having to learn new skills within a matter of weeks. Their contribution to the war effort often remains unheralded, but it is without doubt that these women played a centrol role in an Allied vicotory. Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsi Whiteman were two such women. The previous owners of a genteel restaurance, the volunterred for war work and soon found themselves in an aircraft components factory. Thrown into tough industrial work, they kept a joint diary providing a unique insight into life in a wartime factory. This book reveals the poor conditions suffered on the factory floor, as well asd the general disorganisation and bad management of this essential part of the war effort, but it also describes how war work opened up a new world of social freedom for many women. This diary, both tragic and humerous, brings women's war work vividly to life. Illustrated. 226 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback 1999. 21.5x14cm. vii+227 pages with index. Flat spine has a light crease. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zzn.