Wives, mothers and teenage girls 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 a dangerous, dirty and exhausting job with many going home with acid burns, yellow skin or damaged hair.

This hidden army of nearly two million women toiled on regardless through the hardest years of the war, despite the bombing, rationing and heartbreak of loss or separation from their other halves.

Delve into the vivid wartime memories of the 'secret army' of female workers as we republish to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of VE Day in May 1945!

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781789462050
• Author: Jacky Hyams
• Publisher: John Blake
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 232
• Dimensions: 20 x 12.7 x 1.5cm