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Her war story: twentieth-century women write about war
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Publication Date
c1999
Language
English
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From the Book
Sing a song of war-time / Nina Macdonald
The cordite makers / Rebecca West
from Chronicle of youth: the war diary, 1913-1917 / Vera Brittain
from Fighting France: from Dunkerque to Belport / Edith Wharton
Conspiracy from The forbidden zone / Mary Borden
Women and wives from The backwash of war: the human wreckage of the battlefield as witnessed by an American hospital nurse / Ellen La Motte
Verdun, December-January, 1915 / Colette
from Not so quiet...: stepdaughters of war / Helen Zenna Smith
A honeymoon...vive l'Amerique / Dorothy Canfield Fisher
In the stadium / Amy Lowell
from One of ours / Willa Cather
from It's a great war! / Mary Lee
from Shadow-shapes: the journal of a wounded woman / Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
from The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein
from The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz / Käthe Kollwitz
The cenotaph / Charlotte Mew
The fly / Katherine Mansfield
To my brother killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918 / Louise Bogan
1919 from Sula / Toni Morrison
from Peace and bread in time of war / Jane Addams
from My part in a changing world / Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Apostrophe to man / Edna St. Vincent Millay
High explosives for everyone / Martha Gellhorn
from My shadow in the sun / Frances Davis
Soldiers of the republic / Dorothy Parker
Say that we saw Spain die / Edna St. Vincent Millay
We Jews / Gertrud Kolmar
from Three guineas / Virginia Woolf
from Let the record speak / Dorothy Thompson
from New faith / Ding Ling
The first long range artillery fire on Leningrad / Anna Akhmatova
from The danger tree / Olivia Manning
Oh, madam / Elizabeth Bowen
from The days of Mars: a memoir, 1940-1946 / Bryher
Ancient wisdom speaks / H.D.
from All the brave promises / Mary Lee Settle
from The ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan: a wartime diary of the Philippines / Elizabeth Vaughan
from War in Val d'Orcia / Iris Origo
from The past is myself / Christabel Bielenberg
from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum
Friendly meetings from Auschwitz: true tales from a grotesque land / Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Weiter from Auschwitz and after / Charlotte Delbo
from History: a novel / Elsa Morante
Evacuation ; On the bus ; Harmony at the fair grounds ; Curfew ; In the outhouse ; Inside news / Mitsuye Yamada
Blind Chinese soldiers / Hirabayashi Taiko
The scars remain / Kikue Tada
from Landlocked / Doris Lessing
from The wild place / Kathryn Hulme
Fife's house / Kay Boyle
Gay chaps at the bar / Gwendolyn Brooks
from War in Korea / Marguerite Higgins
A new kind of war / Martha Gelhorn
from Hanoi / Mary McCarthy
That country / Grace Paley
The Vietnamese mother / Huong Tram
from Sensing the enemy / Lady Borton
At first I was given centuries / Margaret Atwood
Kathe Kolwitz / Muriel Rukeyser
Prayer for continuation / Susan Griffin
El Salvador / Karla Ramirez
from The Downing Street years / Margaret Thatcher
from A woman at war : storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines / Molly Moore
Song of becoming / Fadwa Tuqan
One cannot kill a baby twice / Dahlia Ravikovitch
No man's land / Meena Alexander
from Mothers and shadows / Marta Traba
Madalena returned from captivity / Lina Magaia
from The gates of ivory / Margaret Drabble.
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9780809322459
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