Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji’s dramatic

Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji’s dramatic story and sets it in the full context of his turbulent times

and soon to be released with a new introduction that commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war

as nurses in military hospitals

but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running

Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918

Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War Retired Poppies Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji’s dramaticDescription by Virginia Nicholson Paperback Almost three quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring