PDF The Hello Girls America First Women Soldiers Elizabeth Cobbs 9780674237438 Books

Product details Paperback 400 pages Publisher Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (May 13, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 0674237439

The Hello Girls America First Women Soldiers Elizabeth Cobbs 9780674237438 Books Reviews

• Professor Cobbs brings her historian self to this factual account of the women who literally were in the trenches in WWI! It is a fascinating and easy to follow story of American telephone operators recruited by the U,S. Army to connect telephone lines and dispatch messages between units and command posts in France while under fire! Denied proper pensions and compensation for many decades and visibility through proper military channels for almost a century, Cobbs is excellent in telling the story of very brave American women. We are still in there fighting, Girls!!! Know that professor Elizabeth Cobbs has your interests at heart.
• A daringly and mindful story of how the great need for women was recognized by General Pershing and the/his persuasion of President Wilson to enlist them into the Army Signal Corps. However their contribution was not appreciatively noted until long after the war due to what was the status of women of that era. Though you can't change history, you can dictate the future with the learned past; which we have finally done herein.
• Dr Cobbs does an AMAZING job of telling this story with such precision you would think she was one of the Hello Girls. The story is powerful, and the history remarkable. Great job presenting it and making us remember the fight so many went through.
• A multi-faceted reminder that among people in power, there have always been those who will use all the tools of bureaucracy to deny pay, rights & glory to "outsiders" after the real work is done.
  And dozens of profound details of the workings of the world that opened, for me, new areas of interest and inquiry
• Very well written. Keeps the reader's interest. Get to know (and appreciate) the Hello Girls & what they fought for during WWI and beyond. Would recommend this book to historians, archivists, history buffs, and classrooms.
• Really enjoyed this book about these forgotten women. It took long enough to recognize their bravery and commitment.
• Loved this book and related to it because I was a telephone operator in high school but too young to have served. It is well organized and complete with interesting stories about these unsung heroes. I used this book for a power point; loved the photos. Well done.
• I like history in particular World War I and World II history. This is a very interesting read concerning women who were recruited in World War I to man keyboards before women were allowed to serve in the military. If you like war history or women's history, this is a good read.