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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers - Hardcover - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780674971479
- Book Title
- Hello Girls : America's First Women Soldiers
- Item Length
- 5.6 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Women, Military / Veterans, United States / 20th Century, Military / General, Gender Studies, Military / United States, Military / World War I
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Item Weight
- 20.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. Back on the home front, they fought the army for veterans' benefits and medals, and won.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674971477
ISBN-13
9780674971479
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234351450
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hello Girls : America's First Women Soldiers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Military / Veterans, United States / 20th Century, Military / General, Gender Studies, Military / United States, Military / World War I
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.6 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
D639.T4c63 2017
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Cobbs shines a spotlight on the unique contributions of a group of remarkable American women, in the spirit of Hidden Figures (2016), in a book that belongs in every American-history collection., This splendidly written book reveals the bravery and grit of the nation's first women soldiers. During World War I, they were deployed to France, only to be denied recognition as veterans upon return. Their remarkable stories come alive in Cobbs's wonderfully absorbing narrative as does the world of contradictions in which they lived and served., What an eye-opener! The Hello Girls tells the lost story of the women who braved the war in Europe to provide essential communications between U.S. commanders and fighters in the field. Cobbs unearths the original letters and diaries of these forgotten heroines and weaves them into a fascinating narrative with energy and zest., In an informative history of women's military work, Cobbs focuses on more than 200 telephone operators who supported combat soldiers in Europe soon after the United States entered the war in 1917... A fresh, well-researched contribution to military and gender history., Utterly delightful...It's a little-known side-story of the war, but it's not a little story: In Cobbs's skillful handling, it becomes a big, multilayered tale of courage and long-delayed justice...Cobbs very adroitly weaves the story of the Signal Corps into that larger story of American women fighting for the right to vote, but it's the warm, fascinating job she does bringing her cast of The Hello Girls to life that gives this book its memorable charisma...[These women] fought for years to gain the recognition they deserved as the forerunners of all women serving in the U.S. armed forces. This terrific book pays them a long-warranted tribute., Writing with panache and acumen, Cobbs tells the colorful story of the women who served in the Army's Signal Corps in World War I, while opening fresh perspectives on communications technology, the nature of modern warfare, the nation's treatment of veterans, and the never-ending struggle of women for their full rights as citizens. The Hello Girls turns a good tale into a great tool for understanding some of history's grandest themes., This engaging history crackles with admiration for the women who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during the First World War, becoming the country's first female soldiers. Operating switchboards in France, they juggled constantly shifting lists of codes and connections, worked fast amid artillery blasts, and mastered the 'genteel diplomacy' needed to communicate with officials in French as well as English. Their technical skill was matched by what one woman called the 'great, unquenchable, patriotic desire to do my bit.' Cobbs intercuts front-line activities with political battles on the home front: the women returned from victory to an America that did not yet grant them the right to vote., Elizabeth Cobbs draws on a range of official documents, as well as letters and diaries, to tell the fascinating story of the forgotten women telephone operators who were a critical part of the war effort... The Hello Girls makes vividly visible a group of women who, until now, have been unjustly hidden., In the crisply written The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers , Elizabeth Cobbs details exactly what was asked of these women during the war, and reveals, with an authoritative, dispassionate, this-was-some-self-evident-nonsense lucidity, the dismaying extent to which their country failed them when it was over...Smartly, she also walks us through the sundry and simultaneous technical demands of switchboard operating, noting that women could connect five calls in the time it took a man to complete one. Cobbs is particularly good at spotlighting how closely the service of military women like the Hello Girls was tied to the success of the suffrage movement.
Table of Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Epigraph Prologue 1. America's Last Citizens 2. Neutrality Defeated, and the Telephone in War and Peace 3. Looking for Soldiers and Finding Women 4. We're Going Over 5. Pack Your Kit 6. Wilson Adopts Suffrage, and the Signal Corps Embarks 7. Americans Find Their Way, Over There Photographs 8. Better Late Than Never on the Marne 9. Wilson Fights for Democracy at Home 10. Together in the Crisis of Meuse-Argonne 11. Peace without Their Victory Medals 12. Soldiering Forward in the Twentieth Century Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-038111
Dewey Decimal
940.4/173082
Dewey Edition
23
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