Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers

1 Anmeldelser

3

Længde
12T 3M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female "wire experts" when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire. Without communications for even an hour, the army would collapse.

While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Woodrow Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these competent and courageous young women swore the Army oath. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers welcomed, resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them.

The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920. When the operators sailed home, the army unexpectedly dismissed them without veterans' benefits. They began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. With the help of the National Organization for Women, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a crusading Seattle attorney, they triumphed over the U.S. Army.

© 2017 Tantor Media (Lydbog): 9781541476073

Release date

Lydbog: 27. juni 2017

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South Adele Logan Alexander
  2. A Poisoned Life: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England Richard Jay Hutto
  3. The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London Catherine Ostler
  4. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War Karen Abbott
  5. The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
  6. Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i Tom Coffman
  7. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad Hettie Jones
  8. Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist George D. Morgan
  9. The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica Laurie Gwen Shapiro
  10. Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest David Roberts
  11. Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 Anthony P. Hatch
  12. The Soong Sisters Emily Hahn
  13. Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know Maxwell L. Anderson
  14. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C. Stewart
  15. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning Ben Raines
  16. Tropic of Orange Karen Tei Yamashita
  17. Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest Lesley Poling-Kempes
  18. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote Johanna Neuman
  19. Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage William Loren Katz
  20. This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City Jesse Rifkin
  21. The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History Tessa Dunlop
  22. Witchcraft in the United States: The History of Witches, Practices, and Persecution in America Charles River Editors
  23. So Big: A Novel Edna Ferber
  24. Trinity: A Novel Louisa Hall
  25. The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction Daniel Brook
  26. When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II Molly Guptill Manning
  27. Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble Marilyn Johnson
  28. City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Holly Tucker
  29. Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story Christina Thompson
  30. A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance Parvez Sharma
  31. By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose Simon Morley
  32. Second Best Ben Pobjie
  33. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral Mary Doria Russell
  34. Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men Audrey Murray
  35. Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels Toby Ferris
  36. Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars Francesca Wade
  37. Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France Caroline Moorehead
  38. The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams David S. Brown
  39. The Toronto Book of the Dead Adam Bunch
  40. Sweet Thames Matthew Kneale
  41. Women in the War Lucy Fisher
  42. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld T. J. English
  43. The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South Chip Jones
  44. Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race Naben Ruthnum

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet