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Bomb Girls

Trading Aprons for Ammo

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2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War.
What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of "Rosie the Riveter" so popularly advertised to promote factory work in war propaganda posters? How closely does the recent TV show, Bomb Girls, resemble the actual historical record of the day-to-day lives of bomb-making employees?
Bomb Girls delivers a dramatic, personal, and detailed review of Canada's largest fuse-filling munitions factory, situated in Scarborough, Ontario. First-hand accounts, technical records, photographic evidence, business documentation, and site maps all come together to offer a rare, complete account into the lives of over twenty-one thousand brave men and women who risked their lives daily while handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to help win the war.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 14, 2013
      Journalist and author Barris, who has written 16 other history books, applies his ample experience as a military historian to the Great Escape, a Second World War prison escape most people may know best, if at all, from the popular but inaccurate 1963 Hollywood movie. While the bare facts are well knownâon March 24, 1943, 80 soldiers escaped from Luft Stalag III, only for all but three to be recaptured and no less than 50 executed on the orders of Hitler himselfâthe film version played up American involvement and downplayed the Commonwealth elements of the escape to make the result more palatable to American viewers. Armed with historical documents and testimony from the prisoners themselves, Barris corrects misapprehensions and distortions made in the name of entertainment and reveals the true world of life in a German POW camp. The author also delves into what happened after the escape, in the increasingly constrained lives of the POWs during the last years of the Third Reich and the desperate forced march as the Nazi regime finally collapsed. With the 70th anniversary of the Allied mass escape from Luft Stalag III fast approaching, Barris's re-examination is both timely and fascinating.

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