<p>Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them; they were either proud to wear their uniform or refused to join. Whatever their feelings, most former Guides retain strong memories of their experiences.All too often regarded merely in terms of biscuit sales and sing-songs, hardly anybody is aware of the massive impact that the Guides had on gender equality and, more fundamentally, the outcome of the Second World War. In this eye-opening history, Janie Hampton explores how the Guides' work was crucial to Britain's victory. When the Blitz broke out, the Guides knew what to do. They kept up morale in bomb shelters, demonstrating 'blitz cooking' with emergency ovens made from the bricks of bombed houses at the request of the Ministry of Food. They grew food on their company allotments and knitted for the entire country. The embodiment of the Home Front spirit, they dug shelters, provided crucial First Aid, and also assisted the millions of children who were forced to flee their city homes to safer places in the country.It is difficult to imagine what the war effort would have looked like without the Guides. Full of fond and funny anecdotes and rich social history, HOW THE GIRL GUIDES WON THE WAR takes us on the journey of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary movements.</p>

How the Girl Guides Won the War

History

Janie Hampton

Europe

UK General Books

Come Home Soon, Baba

Children's Books

Hamish Hamilton Juv

Healthy Living, Healthy Loving: A Guide to Happy, Healthy Relationships and Family Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Macmillan Education

Joyce Grenfell: A Biography 1910-1979

Biographies & Memoirs

Joyce Grenfell

Arts & Literature

Isis Large Print Books

Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) was a British institution and one of the country's best-loved entertainers. She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues on stage and radio at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her background to work at all. Joyce revealed little about her private life in her two autobiographies, and after her death her image was fiercely guarded by her husband and friends, so that she came to be remembered as almost unnaturally perfect. Now, at last, it is possible to show her human failings as well as her humour, kindness and generosity. Janie Hampton explores Joyce's intense relationship with her brother and her mother; her childlessness; her love affair with Prince Aly Khan; her mixed feelings about the theatre; her moving acts of philanthropy and her faith in Christian Science which enabled her to endure the pain of cancer without medical treatment. The result is an affectionate portrait of a unique, complex and lovable person.

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Internally Displaced People

Taylor&Francis

The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948

Aurum Press

Le SIDA Une Approche Humaine: La Prise En Charge Et La Prevention Du SIDA a Agomanya, Ghana (Strategies Pour L'Espoir)

Politics & Government

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