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Debs at War: 1939-1945
by De Courcy, Anne
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297829300
- ISBN 13
- 9780297829300
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Weideneld & Nicolson. Very Good/Very Good. 2005. Hard Cover. 8vo 0297829300 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, slight wear. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Neat list of relevant books written onto rear end paper. Photographs on plates. 258 pages clean and tight. Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. This book will record, in their own voices where possible, the extraordinary diversity of challenges, shocks and responsibilities they faced - as chauffeurs, couriers, ambulance-drivers, nurses, pilots, spies, decoders, factory workers, farmers, land girls, as well as in the Women's Services. How much did class barriers really come down? Did they stick with their own sort? And what about fun and love in wartime - did love cross the class barriers? .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145249
- Title
- Debs at War: 1939-1945
- Author
- De Courcy, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0297829300
- ISBN 13
- 9780297829300
- Publisher
- Weideneld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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