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BOOKS BY BRITISH WOMEN IN THE MILITARY
Adie, Kate. C..ors..ets and Camo..uIlage~men..and...war. London; Hodder & Stoughton,
2003. Published in association with Women and War, a major exhibition at the
Imperial War Museum, London. A vivid history of ordinary women and their
extraordinary deeds through two world wars and beyond. (I found one error:
WAVES as acronym for Women Accepted for Voluntary (instead of Volunteer)
Service)
Felix, Jenny. We.'lLM.e..e1.AgairL London; Hodder and Stoddard, 1994. WW II members
of the Royal Observer Corps work in an underground room, plotting aircraft
movement as planes move across the sky.
Lynn, Vera, Robin Cross, and Jenny de Gex. ..U..o.su..og...l::ieLo..in.es: The Women Who W.f)..D..
lheJl\l.aL London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990. Illustrated anthology of women's
experiences throughout the war: diaries, letters, memoirs and interviews.
Waller, Jane, and Michael Vaughan-Rees. WQme..n.kLU..oif..Qrrn..1.9.3.9:45~London:
PAPER MAC, a Division of Macmillan. 1989. British women, as never before, went
into uniform as ATS and Land Girls, WAAFS, WRENS, NAFI workers and nurses.
Wells, Maureen. Enteutaining.....Eric..:...Lelte.rs..from..tb.eJ:l.om..e Front, 1941-1944_ London,
Imperial War Museum. 1988. A collection of letters from a British Wren (equivalent
of the U.S. Navy's WAVES) to Eric, a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force. Wells
was a courier who delivered confidential dispatches to all parts of the United
Kingdom on her "autocycle", and later served as a stoker in boats' crews in southern
England during build-up to D-Day.