Recommended reading on the women’s forces in WW2

 WRNS:

Britannia’s Daughters, by Ursula Stuart Mason

I Only Joined for the Hat, by Christian Lamb

Dancing on the Waves, by Angela Mack

Blue Tapestry, by Vera Laughton Matthews

The WRNS, by M. H. Fletcher

 

WAAF:
We All Wore Blue, by Muriel Gane Pushman

The WAAF at War, by John Frayn Turner

Lambs in Blue, by Rebecca Barnett

Women in Air Force Blue, by Squadron Leader Beryl E. Escott

 

ATS:
The Girls Behind the Guns, by Dorothy Brewer Kerr

Britain’s Other Army, by Eileen Bigland

Girls in Khaki, by Barbara Green

 

General:
Women Who Went to War, by Eric Taylor

Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives During the Second World War, by Virginia Nicholson

Debs at War, by Anne De Courcy

 

Cinema:

The Gentle Sex, a great film about ATS girls, directed by Leslie Howard

 

 

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