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The histories of World War Two were largely written by men, because they were almost exclusively the ones who experienced it at the front lines.
But a handful of remarkable women defied official bans, and went to the battlefields as war reporters.
In this extra edition of BFBS Sitrep we hear at length from Judith Mackrell=about her new book ‘Going With The Boys’ =, which tells the stories of six of these women war reporters.
From risking execution to abandoning lunch with Ernest Hemingway to get the scoops, Judith tells Kate Gerbeau how their reporting records a different perspective on the war, how attempts to block actually helped them, and what they have in common with women who serve at the front lines today.
By BFBS Radio5
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The histories of World War Two were largely written by men, because they were almost exclusively the ones who experienced it at the front lines.
But a handful of remarkable women defied official bans, and went to the battlefields as war reporters.
In this extra edition of BFBS Sitrep we hear at length from Judith Mackrell=about her new book ‘Going With The Boys’ =, which tells the stories of six of these women war reporters.
From risking execution to abandoning lunch with Ernest Hemingway to get the scoops, Judith tells Kate Gerbeau how their reporting records a different perspective on the war, how attempts to block actually helped them, and what they have in common with women who serve at the front lines today.

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