BOMB GIRLS (PB)

They were the unsung heroines of World War II: the women who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. This hidden army of nearly two million toiled on through the hardest years of the war, cheerfully ignoring the dangers and exhaustion, as bombing, rationing and the heartbreak of loss or separation took their toll. Here, in their own words, are the vivid wartime memories of the 'secret army' of female munitions workers, whose resilience and sheer grit in the face of danger has only started to emerge.