Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background; this lively account documents the history of the more than 40;000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries; letters; and memoirs; Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women's wartime experiences and provides a unique perspective on their progress in military service. American Women in World War I captures the spirit of these determined patriots and their times for every reader and will be of special interest to military; women's; and social historians.
#1628824 in Books Naval Institute Press 1990-05Ingredients: Example IngredientsOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 10.00 x 10.00 x .75l; #File Name: 0870217194352 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Operational; not TechnicalBy David C. NilsenThis is a good book to own; as books about Coast Guard ships are kind of sparse; and even the Coast Guard itself is not that good about presenting its own records. I got by on a photocopy for years until I found it used on .It covers a lot of time (though now dated) which makes it worth having collected between two covers; but is mostly a list of the operational summaries of each ship. As these summaries are apparently original research (and appear to be the source of 99% of the material presented on the USCG website); this is a significant accomplishment that sets this book apart. It also goes into detail on the of the maintenance of the once essential but now OBE ocean stations; which makes this book a nice directed telescope to a bygone era.Technical information for each class is presented once at the top of each section; but if you're interested in the changes in configuration the cutters went through over their usually very long lives; this book does not contain it. If it does go into information on the individual ships; it is generally a single snapshot of the fit in one particular year. For example; Edisto and Westwind each had a single 5 inch gun in 1966; but If you want to know when they got them or when they beached them; this book won't tell you. To be fair; the Coast Guard itself scarcely seems to know this stuff. Just go to their historical website; and you'll see lots of undated photos sometimes including vague guesses about when they might have been taken. All the more reason for a book which addresses that hole. This isn't that book; but it's more than anything else out there; so worth having on that basis alone.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. a coast guard cutter referance bookBy FritzGood book! An informative concise book on post world war 2 coast guard cutters. If you want to learn more about some of the lesser known cg cutters this is the book to go to.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Cutter HistoryBy Dennis FikeJust loved seeing the old cutters that had so much history
