Girls to the Rescue
Girls to the Rescue

Author: Emily Hamilton-Honey

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-05-25

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1476668795

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During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fundraising, and conserving supplies. These became daily chores for young girls, but many longed to be part of a larger, more glorious war effort--and some were. A new genre of young adult books entered the market, written specifically with the young girls of the war period in mind and demonstrating the wartime activities of women and girls all over the world. Through fiction, girls could catch spies, cross battlefields, man machine guns, and blow up bridges. These adventurous heroines were contemporary feminist role models, creating avenues of leadership for women and inspiring individualism and self-discovery. The work presented here analyzes the powerful messages in such literature, how it created awareness and grappled with the engagement of real girls in the United States and Allied war effort, and how it reflects their contemporaries' awareness of girls' importance.

For Home and Country
For Home and Country

Author: Celia M. Kingsbury

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0803228325

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For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I. Cookbooks, popular magazines, romance novels, and government food agencies targeted women in their homes, especially their kitchens, pressuring them to change their domestic habits. Children were also taught to fear the enemy and support the war through propaganda in the form of toys, games, and books. And when women and children were not the recipients of propaganda, they were often used in propaganda to target men. By examining a diverse collection of literary texts, songs, posters, and toys, Celia Malone Kingsbury reveals how these pervasive materials were used to fight the war's cultural battle.

The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House
The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House

Author: Ross Kay

Publisher:

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This book is about how in almost every rural community there is a house which some believe to be haunted, such is the old Meeker house in this story. Children passing by it move to the opposite side of the road when they draw near. Stories tell of scenes witnessed and sounds heard in the vacant dwelling. The four go-ahead boys decide to solve the mysteries connected with this house.

Alice Blythe Somewhere in England (Classic Reprint)
Alice Blythe Somewhere in England (Classic Reprint)

Author: Martha Trent

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781333645762

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Excerpt from Alice Blythe Somewhere in England But even the Major, watching her as She sat doubled up like a jack-knife in a big winged chair, her knees almost touching her chin as her big white hands tried to manipulate the slippery needles, would have had to laugh. Alice laughed herself, but there was a note of despair in her voice. She got up and walked forlornly down the long room, her ball of worsted unrolling forgotten behind her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Alice Blythe Somewhere in England
Alice Blythe Somewhere in England

Author: Martha Trent

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781359668820

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Britain and World War One
Britain and World War One

Author: Alan G. V. Simmonds

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1136629971

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The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time, it opened up a Home Front that stretched into all parts of the British polity, society and culture, touching the lives of every citizen regardless of age, gender and class. Even vegetables were grown in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Britain and World War One throws attention on these civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, this book casts a fresh look over different aspects of British society during the four long years of war. It revisits the early war enthusiasm and the making of Kitchener’s new armies; the emotive debates over conscription; the relationships between politics, government and popular opinion; women working in wartime industries; the popular experience of war and the question of social change. The book also explores areas of wartime Britain overlooked by recent histories, including the impact of the war on rural society; the mobilization of industry, and the importance of technology, as well as exploring responses to air raids, food and housing shortages; the challenges to traditional social and sexual mores and wartime culture. Britain and World War One is an essential book for all students and interested lay readers of the First World War.