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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: In the Great War, arsenals hired women to build the weapons. Joining them is Lucy Dempsey, who also joins the ladies' football club, the Thornshire Canaries, the one place where class distinction and fears for their men dissolve.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

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Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

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Summary: Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

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