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Bomb girls, Jacky Hyams ; read by Helen Lloyd

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Bomb girls

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Jacky Hyams ; read by Helen Lloyd

These are the intimate and personal stories of an unforgettable group of women, whose hard work and quiet courage made a significant contribution to Britain's war effort. The story of the unsung heroines of World War II, told in their own words. Bomb Girls tells the intimate, personal stories of an unforgettable group of women, whose hard work and quiet courage helped Britain to win the war. They were the wives and mothers and teenage girls who clocked in daily to work in vast munitions factories, helping to make the explosives, bullets, shells, bombs and war machines that would ensure victory. It was dangerous, dirty and exhausting work. They laboured round the clock, often exposed to toxic, lethal chemicals. A factory accident could mean blindness, loss of limbs - or worse. Many went home with acid burns, yellow skin or damaged hair, others were forced to leave their loved ones and move to live with strangers in unfamiliar surroundings. Frequently, their male bosses were coarse and unsympathetic. Yet this hidden army of nearly two million women toiled on regardless through the hardest years of the war, cheerfully ignoring the dangers and the exhaustion, as bombing, rationing and the heartbreak of loss or separation took their toll on everyone in the country. Here, in their own words, are the vivid wartime memories of the 'secret army' of female munitions workers, whose resilience and sheer grit in the face of danger has only recently started to emerge

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