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Great Britain Industrial hygiene Great Britain Fiction Iraq War, 2003-2011 Veterans Fiction Social classes Fiction Weapons industry Employees Fiction Women Women soccer players Women soccer players Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Women FictionChiaverini, Jennifer
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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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Summary: While a munitions plant secretary risks the ire of her community by gathering evidence of a high-level cover-up, an Iraq veteran collaborates with three fellow survivors to reveal harsh truths about the war, with scandalous results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: For Maggie Rayburn--wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant--life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, an act that turns her world, and her worldview, upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good--and also by a newfound taste for excitement--Maggie starts to see injustice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016