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My primary school headmistress, Mrs Kirkwood, regularly regaled her pupils with terrifying tales of her time teaching during the London Blitz. The rush for shelter in the Underground; the songs they would sing as bombs rained overhead; the devastation they would emerge to after the all-clear. As an introduction to the social history of the Second World War it was fascinating, no matter how familiar those stories became.
Women may not have been expected to take up arms and fight, but many were subjected to physical threats of war. Few might have been hit by torpedoes at sea, but as Nicholson shows with one Mary Cornish, accompanying a group of schoolboys across the Atlantic, it did happen.See the full content of this document
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