The Hello Girls : America's First Women Soldiers / Elizabeth Cobbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobbs, Elizabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army. Signal Corps--History--20th century.

United States.

United States. Army--Women--History.

World War, 1914-1918--Communications.

World War, 1914-1918.

Telephone operators--United States--History--20th century.

Telephone operators.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Female.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. Back on the home front, they fought the army for veterans' benefits and medals, and won.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Prologue

1. America's Last Citizens

2. Neutrality Defeated, and the Telephone in War and Peace

3. Looking for Soldiers and Finding Women

4. We're Going Over

5. Pack Your Kit

6. Wilson Adopts Suffrage, and the Signal Corps Embarks

7. Americans Find Their Way, Over There

8. Better Late Than Never on the Marne

9. Wilson Fights for Democracy at Home

10. Together in the Crisis of Meuse- Argonne

11. Peace without Their Victory Medals

12. Soldiering Forward in the Twentieth Century

Epilogue

NOTES

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780674978546

0674978544

9780674978591

0674978595

OCLC:

984637846