The Hello Girls by Elizabeth Cobbs

I hope you all had a happy and safe 4th of July long weekend!  We did so, with my family, after a week in Disney with the Band!

On to today's review.

First, I take issue with the subtitle: America's First Women Soldiers.  Not true.  This is about World War I and there were most definitely women who fought, whether formally or not, in prior American conflicts.  The biggest name that comes to mind is Harriet Tubman, who fought with the Union army in the Civil War.  Many women took up arms in the Revolutionary War.  So, there's that.

Now, there is so much importance in having this in our collection.  These women served our nation in communications.  They sacrificed to protect our way of life.  At a time when women could not vote, they flew to a foreign land in an essential service to the combat troops.  And like Tubman, they returned home to another battle on top of suffrage--being denied Veterans' benefits.  It would not be until 1979 that they earned the benefits entitled to them. 

What I didn't like was the writing style of this book.  I envisioned a narrative, and I think that's the goal, but the information was presented in a choppy way: a paragraph about this person or that item then off to something else.  It was extremely difficult to follow and took me a long time to get through.  It reads more like a reference work than narrative.

All in all, I'm glad we have this, but I would recommend it for research, not pleasure reading.

Ohhhh, and thanks to a secret source, I got a picture of the new library texted to me....IT'S GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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P.S. About to put this on video on Classroom along with This Bridge Called My Back.  Had some technical difficulties!