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<blockquote>Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front.<p>-- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1944</p></blockquote><p><i>Our Mothers' War</i> is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society.</p><p>Never before has the vast range of American women's experience during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, <i>Our Mothers' War</i> re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad.</p><p>Like all great histories, <i>Our Mothers' War</i> began with an illuminating discovery. After finding a journal and letters her mother had written while serving with the Red Cross in the Pacific, journalist Emily Yellin started unearthing what her mother and other women of her mother's generation went through during a time when their country asked them to step into roles they had never been invited, or allowed, to fill before.</p><p>Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal interviews and previously unpublished letters and diaries, Yellin sh

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Author

Yellin, Emily, 1961-

Publisher

New York : Free Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743245166

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.09 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14