Wartime Is Your Time
by Marian Gold
ISBN 0955266149
Wartime is Your Time is a book chronicling
the lives of women during the First World War, while their men were fighting
at the front.
Whilst a generation of young men heroically fought and died in the Great
War, what were the women doing? Did they stay passively at home, waiting
for their loved ones to return? Magazines of the time concentrated on
the "home front economy", both in fashion and food, encouraging
women to knit for the troops and send them food parcels.
In fact, they left their home comforts and took over men's jobs, with
great success. They worked on the land, in munitions factories, as VADs
and ambulance drivers at the front. Often they too lost their lives.
Researching for the book the author Marian Gold had the rare opportunity to meet some of these women, and record their experiences. Most of them were very elderly, yet only a little prompting brought back memories of their lives in a society that has changed beyond recognition.
Marian weaves these memories with photographs, magazine articles and
background discussion with reference to other publications She discusses
the continuing success of the magazines up to and including the present
day, picturing a world that is often far removed from reality.
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