The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers / Elizabeth Cobbs.
"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few wer...
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| Other title: | America's first women soldiers. |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- America's last citizens
- Neutrality defeated, and the telephone in war and peace
- Looking for soldiers and finding women
- We're going over: recruiting the Hello Girls
- Pack your kit: selection and training
- Wilson adopts suffrage and the Signal Corps embarks
- Americans find their way, over there
- Better late than never: the battle for the Marne
- Wilson fights for a mandate at home
- Together in the crisis of Meuse-Argonne
- Peace without victory medal
- Soldiering forward in the twentieth century.