Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second

Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War

The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford)
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Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their countryâ€™s war effort. As members of the Womenâ€™s Institute, an organization with a presence in a third of Britainâ€™s villages, they ran canteens and knitted garments for troops, collected tons of rosehips and other herbs to replace medicines that couldnâ€™t be imported, and advised the government on issues ranging from evacuee housing to childrenâ€™s health to postwar reconstruction. But they are best known for making jam: from produce they grew on every available scrap of land, they produced twelve million pounds of jam and preserves to feed a hungry nation.
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Home Fires, Julie Summersâ€™s fascinating social history of the Womenâ€™s Institute during the war (when its members included the future Queen Elizabeth II along with her mother and grandmother), provides the remarkable and inspiring true story behind the upcoming PBS Masterpiece series that will be sure to delight fans of Call the Midwife and Foyleâ€™s War. Through archival material and interviews with current and former Womenâ€™s Institute members, Home Fires gives us an intimate look at life on the home front during World War II.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-15
Format	Kindle eBook

Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War

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