At a time when the bravery of our armed service personnel is foremost in our minds, this book tells the other side of the story: the women - and men - who were left to cope as best they could while their loved ones fought in some of the twentieth century's bloodiest conflicts.
These are the backbone of the armed forces -- from the WW1 fiancees who lost their opportunity to marry, to the WW2 wives who manned ack-ack guns, and worked in munitions factories and on the land, through National Service, the Small Wars, and modern conflicts, when male partners joined the ladies married to a uniform.
These stories reveal a picture of just how much those behind the colours contributed to support the uniforms they married, and what it cost them to do so.
