An Unladylike Profession

An Unladylike ProfessionDescription by Chris Dubbs Paperback When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from stepping into the breach, defying gender norms and official restrictions to establish roles for themselvesand to write new kinds of narratives about women and war. Chris Dubbs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie Bly, and more than thirty other American women

How can one young boy survive World War I and find his brother with only a dog to help

Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players

For most of that time

At the same time

definitive biography

there was a sense that country was changing

only to quickly close shut again

brisk narrative

ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries

providing goods ranging from canned oysters to light artillery pieces

Features images of 34 World War I airplanes from countires such as France

The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community