Hanna Diamond presents varied testimony to reveal the realities of women's daily lives and the role they played in both collaboration and resistance. She consid

This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in F

Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and

Since the 1970s, when the dominance of military histories of the World Wars ended, and social historical histories of conflict rose to prominence, women have co

Describing the heroic efforts of the many women who served during the Second World War, a collection of personal accounts relates their participation in the mil