West Indian women at war : British racism in World War II
Bousquet, Ben1991
Books, Manuscripts
Subject: This book documents the unrecorded contribution made by West Indian women in the British armed forces during the Second World War. Based on original research and interviews, the book charts the obstacles placed in the way of the recruitment of black women by a very reluctant war office.The Auxiliary Territorial Service was the only branch of the services that eventually instituted a programme of recruitment in the Caribbean, and it was not until the autumn of 1943 that the first recruits arrived in Britain for training.
Main title:
West Indian women at war : British racism in World War II / Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas
Author:
Imprint:
Lawrence & Wishart., 1991.
Notes:
British racism in World War II.
ISBN:
085315743X
Dewey class:
HI.1BOU972.90
Local class:
HI.1/BOU
Language:
Undetermined
BRN:
317566