Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies Unlike previous accounts that trace

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000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I

Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies Unlike previous accounts that traceDescription 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