An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most pr

This volume focuses on how wartime changed the lives of the most sheltered section of British society - the young, unmarried daughters of the upper classes.

In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America’s role in World War I. Though many

This volume focuses on how wartime changed the lives of the most sheltered section of British society - the young, unmarried daughters of the upper classes.

Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the Britis