An on-the-spot record of what the women of England were doing in World War II : The land army, civil defence, munitions, communications, the home war effort and the domestic and economic consequences of women doing jobs that had been in the traditional male domain. Full of handsome colour plates by P.C. Hennel showing this band of determined women: servicing guns on a torpedo boat, dispatch riding, changing sparking plugs on a training aircraft, handling the barrage balloon, fitting the cowling to the motor of a Halifax bomber and extinguishing an explosive incendiary bomb. A real piece of history.