Home Fires: The Story of the Women’s Institute in the Second World War Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Julie Summers ID: B015DSPELS
Soon to be a PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country’s war effort. As members of the Women’s Institute, an organization with a presence in a third of Britain’s villages, they ran canteens and knitted garments for troops, collected tons of rosehips and other herbs to replace medicines that couldn’t be imported, and advised the government on issues ranging from evacuee housing to children’s health to postwar reconstruction. But they are best known for making jam: From produce they grew on every available scrap of land, they produced 12 million pounds of jam and preserves to feed a hungry nation. Home Fires, Julie Summers’ fascinating social history of the Women’s Institute during the war (when its members included the future Queen Elizabeth II along with her mother and grandmother), provides the remarkable and inspiring true story behind the upcoming PBS Masterpiece series that will be sure to delight fans of Call the Midwife and Foyle’s War. Through archival material and interviews with current and former Women’s Institute members, Home Fires gives us an intimate look at life on the home front during World War II.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 12 hours and 20 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Penguin AudioAudible.com Release Date: September 15, 2015Language: EnglishID: B015DSPELS Best Sellers Rank: #51 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > History > Europe #120 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > History > Military #155 in Books > History > World > Women in History
Readers will be amazed at just how much the UK’s Women’s Institute contributed to Britain’s efforts in the Second World War. Ms. Summers writes in great detail about their voluntary efforts, and brings the WI to life with quotes, letters and interviews with its members and their children. This book will delight history buffs and Anglophiles alike and is a great source of reference if you plan to watch or have watched the TV drama series it inspired. (No relation to author)
This is a factual, serious book of Women’s Institute during it’s founding and during WWII. If you are interested in the facts, figures, and nuts and bolts of the WI, this book is for you. This is a reference book for the PBS series. Recommended for the reader who wants the facts behind the story. Deserve an A+++ for serious research.
Well, I was going to write a review, but the second review I see here by "Note" expresses beautifully exactly what I wanted to say. This is indeed a serious, factual book (despite the cover, which looks a bit like TV-fluff) about the women’s Institutes in Britain before and during WWII. I am in the middle of the book right now, and loving it. I really appreciate the detailed and well-researched approach the author took….it’s bringing this organization, it’s leaders and local participants, and its role during WWII to life for me. And it is also entertaining and a pleasure to read. I highly recommend it!
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