Disgrace Abounding
E.S. Turner, 7 January 1988
A Class Society at War: England 1914-18
by Bernard Waites.
Berg, 303 pp., £25, November 1987,0 907582 65 6 Show More
by Bernard Waites.
Berg, 303 pp., £25, November 1987,
Working for Victory? Images of Women in the First World War
by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard.
Routledge, 201 pp., £19.95, November 1987,0 7102 0974 6 Show More
by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard.
Routledge, 201 pp., £19.95, November 1987,
The Countryside at War 1914-18
by Caroline Dakers.
Constable, 238 pp., £12.95, November 1987,0 09 468060 4 Show More
by Caroline Dakers.
Constable, 238 pp., £12.95, November 1987,
When Jim Crow met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War Two Britain
by Graham Smith.
Tauris, 265 pp., £14.95, November 1987,9781850430391 Show More
by Graham Smith.
Tauris, 265 pp., £14.95, November 1987,
“... is there a question-mark after ‘victory’ in the title? Women war-workers turn up again in Caroline Dakers’s The Countryside at War, tilling the land in company with soldiers, German prisoners and conscientious objectors, a more-than-dubious mix in the farmer’s eyes. The sight of girls in breeches shocked an older generation and land girls ... ”
