The Girls Who Went to War

The Girls Who Went to War

* A Sunday Times bestseller *

"An important and inspiring book" – Dame Vera Lynn

Drawn by glamorous propaganda posters offering smart uniforms and the promise of adventure, more than half a million young women answered the call to arms during the Second World War. They left behind sheltered home lives for the rigours of the armed forces and an existence that was harder, and in some cases more dangerous, than they could have imagined. But along the way they found friendship, romance and a greater freedom than ever before.

From 19-year-old Jessie, who went from a quiet country village to shooting down German planes in an ATS ack-ack battery, to shy, timid Margery who found her self-confidence on an Air Force base in the Egyptian desert, and Kathleen, a former nanny with a lust for adventure who toiled in the Land Army before winning her dream job as a Wren, this book tells the inspiring, gripping and heart-warming true stories of women whose lives were changed forever by the outbreak of war.