Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies but on the Home Front

but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running

Unlike previous accounts that trace the origins of the revolution to overreaching political forces and ideals

Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji’s dramatic story and sets it in the full context of his turbulent times

the 1918 harvest was held up as ‘one of the great achievements of the War

and soon to be released with a new introduction that commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war

Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies but on the Home FrontDescription by Virginia Nicholson Paperback Almost three quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring