Army Girls
- Author Tessa Dunlop
- Narrator Tessa Dunlop
- Publisher Headline
- Run Time 9 hours and 3 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Military history, Second World War.
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What to expect
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of conscription for women, Army Girls captures remarkable stories from the last surviving veterans who served in Britain's female army and brings to life a pivotal moment in British history. Precious memories and letters are entwined in a rich narrative that travels back in time and sheds new light on being young, female and at war.
Uniquely this moving Second World War memoir is embedded in the present day. Written in the midst of a global pandemic, the parallels and paradoxes between two very different national crises are explored in a book that honours the women who fought on in extreme youth and now once more in great old age.
(P) 2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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The thrilling, gripping and often painfully moving voices of those women who served alongside men in the Second World War – but were never called soldiers because they were women. Tessa Dunlop captures with verve, sensitivity and humour the indomitable spirit, the hardships and the emotion of these young women, many of them sheltered young girls, thrown overnight into the brutality of total war.
Professor Kate Williams -
Wise, witty, compassionate and personal: Tessa Dunlop writes just the best kind of history about women.
Lucy Worlsey OBE -
You’ll feel the shock of finding these amazing characters are still among us – I was gripped from the first page.
Jeremy Vine -
A fascinating and joyful read. It brushes aside simplistic myths about World War 2, uncovers the forgotten stories of women who served on the front line and makes us see British women’s experience of war as it must really have been – messy, intense, sometimes absurd and very often heroic.
Jonathan Coe -
It’s been marvellous to read
The Times Radio -
Army Girls… is an extraordinary insight into the women who served in the Second World War.
Daily Mirror
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