A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World WarDescription by Patricia Fara Paperback Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves withscientific and technological progress, and that during the dark years of war they mobilized women to enter conventionally male

it just as clearly derived from their wartime participation in uniform

Wasteland reveals how bloody battlefields

and as workers

or on the march

but also a remarkable thriller

and the United States

Before AIDS or Ebola

the rebuilding of the villages and the replanting of the forest before the Germans invaded again in 1940

unflinching assessment of the leaders as well

the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

accusations of being a German spy

who was just 15 when he enlisted