Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies Towards the end of the

Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918

and soon to be released with a new introduction that commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war

Alessandro Giuliani

the 1918 harvest was held up as ‘one of the great achievements of the War

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Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies Towards the end of theDescription by Virginia Nicholson Paperback Almost three quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring