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'Beautifully written, Sisters in Arms braids together policy matters with personal experience in a highly engaging manner. It will become the standard 'go-to' work on the subject, and should be read by absolutely anyone interested in the social or the military aspects of the British wartime experience.' S. P. MacKenzie, author of Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama 'Crang's new history of militarised women in Second World War Britain shows us one of the ways that total war entails the remaking of society. Sisters in Arms tells both the stories of the women drawn into the military, and the wider story of how this reshaped wartime Britain.' Lucy Noakes, author of Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain 'It's easy to forget the thousands of British women who volunteered for military service alongside the men in the Second World War. In this pioneering study, Jeremy Crang reconstructs in telling detail the life of the servicewoman in all three armed forces. This is a remarkably original story, scrupulously researched, and conveyed with humanity and intelligence.' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 'Jeremy Crang has produced a clear, wide-ranging and highly readable examination of the auxiliary women's services which draws on fascinating personal testimonies to reconstruct the experiences of members from recruitment through to demobilisation.' Juliette Pattinson, author of Women of War: Gender, Modernity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

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Jeremy A. Crang is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The British Army and the People's War, 1939–1945 (2000) and co-editor (with Paul Addison) of The Burning Blue: a New History of the Battle of Britain (2000), Firestorm: the Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (2006), Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May–September 1940 (2010) and The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940–June 1941 (2020). He has also co-edited (with Edward Spiers and Matthew Strickland) A Military History of Scotland (2012).

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