Acclaimed by The New York Times as an important new book, and an example of first-rate research and reporting, and by The Washington Post as, exceptionally well-written, Our Mothers’ War portrays women as equal partners in fighting and winning World War II — a war that forever transformed the way women participated in American society.
Readers will come to see the surprisingly vast scope of American women’s experiences during that pivotal era. Our Mothers’ War offers a comprehensive portrait of what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad.
Sparked by finding a journal and letters her mother had written home from the Pacific while serving with the Red Cross, journalist Emily Yellin embarked on a broad investigation of how the women of her mother’s generation responded to this time when their country asked them to step into roles they had never been invited, or allowed, to fill before.
