They Also Served: American Women in World War II [Hardcover]

Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1995

WASPs, WACs, WAVEs, Marines, Army and Navy nurses, cooks, clerks, OSS intelligence gatherers, and other service women--forty in all--offer intimate, first-hand accounts of their rigorous experiences overseas and the mistreatment they sometimes faced.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Thousands of American women joined military and civilian agencies to serve their country during WWII. Some worked under dangerous conditions, but most held routine jobs such as office worker and truck driver. Gruhzit-Hoyt (Censorship in America) presents the stories of women who saw duty with the Army Nurse Corps, Women's Army Corps, Navy WAVES, Marine Corps Women's Reserves, Coast Guard SPARS, etc. Among them are Reba Whittle, the only American nurse captured and imprisoned by the Germans during the war; Alice Nielstockel, who ran a Red Cross club-mobile that followed U.S. troops as they fought their way across Europe; and Charity Adams, one of the first black women accepted for the first officer-candidate class at the first WAC training center (at Fort Des Moines, Iowa). These profiles don't go deep but reveal the immensely supportive roles women played in the war.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

A journalist and author of several nonfiction juvenile books, Gruhzit-Hoyt has assembled over 30 firsthand accounts of American servicewomen and women who served in civilian agencies during World War II. Appended are short biographies of nearly 40 more women. Most sketches rely heavily on letters to the author and describe rigorous basic training, service at home or abroad, obstacles or discrimination encountered, and the great pride and satisfaction these women felt in having been a part of the war effort. Doris Weatherford's American Women and World War II (LJ 9/1/90) offers a wider perspective and appraisal by including women in industry and women at home as well as women in the military and in civilian agencies. Appropriate for public libraries.?Patricia A. Beaber, Trenton State Coll. Lib., N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 299 pages
• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr; 1St Edition edition (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559722800
• ISBN-13: 978-1559722803
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,092,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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