Women in WWII Books
Note: Many of these books are out of print. Used books are typically the way to go for these types of books anyway, as the print runs are very short, and the books can be very expensive. I recommend Abe for finding vintage WWII and hard to find books. The links below take you to Abebooks or Amazon to help you find copies of each title. If you don't have any luck there, you may want to try Biblio.com
If you would like to add any titles to the list email them to: wwii@womeninwwii.com.
1940's Lifestyle: Clothing, Hairstyles, and more
Fashions of a Decade: The 1940's
Books by Daniela Turudich
Homefront
V for Victory: America's Home Front During World War II
- This is one of my favorite books on the homefront, and Amazon's reviews tend to agree.
Don't You Know There's a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in WWII
Swing Shift: The All Girl Bands of the 1940's
A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in WWII
Slacks & Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
Rosie the Riveter: Cornerstones of Freedom
Women of the Homefront: World War II Recollections of 55 Americans
General Military Accounts
In Defense of a nation: Servicewomen in WWII
They Also Served: American Women in WWII
Her War: American Women in WWII
Army Nurse Corps
Albanian Escape
All This Hell
And If I Perish
GI Nightingales
We Band of Angels
Doris, Macauley - Bread and Rice: An American Woman's Fight to Survive in the Jungles and Prison Camps of the WWII Philippines
American Red Cross
A Women in a Man's War: Reflections of a Red Cross Donut Girl of WWII
Doughnut Dollies: American Red Cross Girls During World War II : A Novel
WARCOS - War Correspondants
Women Spies (OSS)
The Spy Wore Red
Women in the USO / ENSA
Over Here Over There: The Andres Sisters and the USO Stars in WWII
Always Home 50 Tears of the USO(United Service Organizations) The Official Photographic History
WACS - Women's Army Corps
An Officer and a Lady: The World War II Letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps
A Wac Looks Back: Recollections and Poems of Wwii (Paperback)
Stateside Soldier : Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945
When the Nation Was in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps During World War II
The Women's Army Corps (United States Army in World War II: Special studies)
WAVES
Women MarinesAngel of the NAVY, 1943- 1st person recruiting guide for the WAVES and SPARS
Free A Man to Fight: Women Marines in WWII
Women Pilots (Women in the WASP / WAF / ATA programs)
Sisters in the Sky: The WAFS Volume 1
Sisters of the Sky: The WASP Volume 2
The Forgotten Pilots - Britian's Women Pilots, the Air Transport Auxiliary
Jackie Cochran: An autobiography
Jackie Cochran: In the fastest lane