Thank you so much for all your suggestions for a Women in War reading list and your titles now collated here so that you can cut and paste them / copy them out if you so wish. I have added in a few more from my shelves too so please continue to add any more in comments and I will amend the list as you do.
On Radji Beach ~ Ian W. Shaw
Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany ~ Nathan A. Stoltzfus.
Bullwinkel:the true story of Vivian Bullwinkle ~ Norman Manners.
50 years of Silence ~ Jan Ruff-O'Herne:
The Women Who Wrote the War ~ Nancy Caldwell Sorel
'On The Other Side: Letters To My Children From Germany 1940-46 ' ~ Mathilde Wolfe-Monckeberg.
Corsets to Camouflage, Women in War ~ Kate Adie
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
To War With Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly 1939-1945
Resistance ~ Agnes Humbert
Nella Last's War
The Night Watch ~ Sarah Waters
Sophie's Choice by William Styron.
The Reader ~ Bernard Schlink
Life Class / Toby's Room / Ghost Road ~ Pat Barker
Human Voices ~ Penelope Fitzgerald
The World Their Wilderness ~ Rose Macauley
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army by Flora Sandes,
Carve her Name with Pride- R J Minney,
When the Children came Home; Stories of Wartime Evacuees by Julie Summers.
The Gift Horse - Report of a Life, the memoirs of Hildegarde Neff,
Kitchen Fugue ~ Sheila Kaye-Smith
Wartime Women ~ A Mass Observation anthology
Not So Quiet ~ Helen Zenna Smith
A Desert in Bohemia ~ Jill Paton Walsh
Women's Barracks ~ Tereska Torrès
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 ~ Kate Luard
Unknown Warriors ~ Kate Luard
Colour Scheme ~ Ngaio Marsh -
The Widow and her Hero ~ Thomas Keneally
A Whispered Name ~ William Brodrick
A Time to Love / Dangerous Spring / The Ark / Rowan Farm / The Long Way Home. ~ Margot Benary
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky ~ Simon Mawer
Charlotte Gray ~ Sebastian Faulks
Resistance ~ Owen Shears
Moon Tiger ~ Penelope Lively
Small Island ~ Andrea Levy
At Mrs Lippincote's ~ Elizabeth Taylor
Suite Francaise ~ Irene Nemirovsky
The Legacy / A Town Like Alice / The Chequer Board / Pastoral / Pied Piper ~ Nevil Shute
The Balkan Trilogy ~ Olivia Manning
The Spy Who Loved - The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of the Second World War ~ Clare Mulley
Train to Nowhere ~ Anita Leslie
Flowers of the Field ~ Sarah Harrison
Peace ~ Richard Bausch.
D.E.Stevenson
The English Air (1940)
Mrs. Tim Carries On (1941)
Spring Magic (1942)
The Two Mrs. Abbotts (1943)
Listening Valley (1944)
The Four Graces (1946)
Amberwell (1955)
Sarah Morris Remembers (1967)
One of Ours ~ Willa Cather
The Forbidden Zone ~ Mary Borden
Rilla of Ingleside ~ L.M.Montgomery
Little Boy Lost ~ Marghanita Laski
Manja ~ Anna Gmeyner
Few Eggs and No Oranges ~ Vere Hodgson
Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War ~ Magda Dene
The Past is Myself / The Road Ahead ~ Christabel Bielenburg
The Return of the Soldier ~ Rebecca West.
Elsie and Mairi Go To War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front ~ Dr Diane Atkinson
A Fine of 200 Francs ~ Elsa Triolet
A Woman In Berlin ~ Anon
Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF ~ Joan Rice
She Goes to War ~ Edith Pargeter
Scars Upon My Heart / Chaos of the Night (poetry by women)
Bombers and Mash - The Domestic Front 1939-1945 ~ Raynes Minns
Millions Like Us ~ Virginia Nicholson
Bad Faith ~ Carmen Callil
Wave Me Goodbye / Hearts Undefeated - Stories & Women's Writing of the Second World War
A Train in Winter ~ Caroline Moorhead
War on the Margins ~ Libby Cone
Childrens novels by Robert Westall, Michelle Magorian, Susan Cooper & Nina Bawden
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