"American Women in a World at War provides abundant materials (many of which have been out of print) on gender, class and race during World War II."

--Feminist Bookstore News

"Well crafted" American Women in a World at War clearly demonstrates that American women were actively engaged in the war effort."

--Midwest Book Review

Scholorly Resources, Inc. Web Site, September, 2000n

American Women in a World at War brings together 25 writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful role in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed ?everybody?s war.? The book features pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important?but largely forgotten?personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times.