title: Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
author:  Kate Adie 
description: Kate Adie draws on her own experience as a war reporter to illuminate her narrative.<b><i>The Spectator</i></b><br /><br />presents a well-researched history of how the role of women changed during the war. ... Adie charts this effectively.<b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br /><br />This is history at its most celebratory . . . The book is chatty, personal and packed with plenty of anecdote.<b><i>Telegraph</i></b><br /><br />This fascinating, very readable book provides a complete wartime women's history, but Adie also picks out faces among the anonymous 'battalions of women who saw their duty as service to others'.<b><i>Discover Your History</i></b><br /><br />Some of the detail is delicious, like the women's football . . . Throughout it all, Adie uses her journalistic eye for personal stories and natural compassion to create a book definitely worthy of her heroines.<b><i>The Big Issue</i></b><br /><br />Kate Adie provides a compelling account of how women's lives changed during World War One<b><i>Irish Tatler</i></b><br /><br />If it is strong, successful, independent women you want, you can't do much better than Kate Adie, who has tackled the place of women during the First World War in her excellent book <i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fighting on the Home Front</i><b><i>The Big Issue</i></b>
zlib_text: PRAISE FOR AIMIE K. RUNYAN
  Girls on the Line
  “Girls on the Line brings to vivid life the unknown story of American
  women who served on the front lines of World War I as telephone
  operators, working under shellfire and exhaustion to keep frontline officers
  connected during battle. Philadelphia socialite Ruby battles family
  disapproval to volunteer at the front, finding camaraderie and sisterhood
  among her fellow operators, who risk their lives as much as any soldier and
  fight to be accepted as soldiers in their own right. Runyan illuminates these
  little-known women of the past in a moving tale of female solidarity and
  courage.”
  —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of
  The Alice Network
  “A worthy war narrative with a strong, likable female lead and a solid
  supporting cast.”
  —Kirkus Reviews
  “Runyan’s book represents the best of historical fiction . . . [Girls on the
  Line] is about the power of female friendship and feminism, as these
  women fight for equal rights and recognition. 